Ah, the free speech, how beautiful

I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users' attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.

I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.

It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously "resettled" users.

Reddit admins are just protecting lemmy.ml from being further overloaded!

In all seriousness, it's best to direct people to https://join-lemmy.org rather than any specific instance - the list of instances there is constantly being updated and can be used to spread out the load between different instances. Even so, your post would most likely still have been removed from Reddit, regardless of what specific Lemmy url you're posting.

They banned the RedditAlternatives sub a few days ago. If it wasn’t the case before, it is now. This situation must be rattling some cages at Reddit redgardless of what Spez said.

I wasn't too interested with what happens to reddit, but if this is the path they choose, I wish them a very fun streisand effect.

A very fitting Quote by JFK:

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.

Elon's going to start suing u/spez for royalties

Similar things happened when Twitter screwed the pooch and you'd mention Mastodon to people.

You might be able to circumvent an automatic filter by writing ‮lm.ymmel‬ - that should be rendered as ‮lm.ymmel‬

Use a URL shortener like bitly.

https://bit.ly/3CqHoSB

The thing to do now is post it in an image. They can't autodetect the text in the image . its possible for sure but they're not spending money on that

It's clear that /u/spez is playing by Fellon Muskolini's playbook. The problem (for them) is the existence of something called "Streisand effect". Or, as Mahatma Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

Reddit would be better if they just ignored posts pointing to Fediverse instances, but since they won't, well... Their loss is our gain.

Same. They shadow deleted a comment I made with a link to lemmy, I can still see it if I'm logged in though.

It's possible they setup bots to scan links to lemmy and automatically remove them, if they're really doing that, it means they're scared.

going to grab more popcorn

If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police "Lemmy" or "Tildes" spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.

Sad.

Twitter did the same with Mastodon links originally.

Just noticed those fuckers actually banned pushshift, spez and his band of lowlifes sure don't want people to be able to see their meddling.

Maybe try pointing them to r/kbinmigration or r/lemmymigration