3y ago

PSA: the admins are actively shadowbanning accounts and deleting comments that mention lemmy in the spez AMA - Sopuli

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Expected but pathetic
I wouldn't put it past them, but is there, like, any concrete proof of that anywhere?
- Yah. I'm wondering what exactly is shadowbanning in this context? And how do they know.
  
  Originally, shadow banning was a way to deal with bots; you give them a view of the site which looks like their spam is there but nobody else sees it. Obviously this is a great way to silence users as well.
  
  My comment only shows up on my account. Its deleted if not logged in as me. I also can no longer comment
  
  Just the fact that they are using something like shadowbanning says a lot about reddit.
  
  Honestly regardless of the context, shadowbanning or even just your post/comment showing up for you but nobody else is one of the biggest gripes I have about Reddit. If it's not approved, it shouldn't show up. You shouldn't have to literally log in on a different account or incognito mode just to see if your post actually went through.
- It happened to me...?
Well, my personal opinion is that, instead of mentioning lemmy, you should mention lɘmmy or ləmmy.
Definitely not all of them, I've seen a few mentions.

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