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EDIT: @[email protected] shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I straight up got my account of 2 years deleted for advertising Lemmy lol, nothing of value was lost that day

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's interesting. I haven't been banned for mentioning r/RedditAlternatives yet. I'm honestly shocked that sub still exists.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Perhaps using this picture instead of writing the link in plain text will help prevent the Reddit bots from detecting that one is recommending Lemmy there:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if that's the captcha to get in... i'm out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh, no, I should have explained! That's something to help post the link hopefully without the Reddit bots detecting it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Try lem my dot (world/ee/ect...) make it look strange but people will get it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got shadow banned years ago for sharing the link to the εxodus privacy analysis of the Reddit app. There is a reason why they keep trying to pressure their users to use their app. It's farming their personal data.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can you link it here? I've never heard of this analysis

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's a reddit?

Oh, yea, that dumpster fire I walked away from 2 years ago. It still exists?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Sadly, yes.

Not gonna lie, I was only there to encourage people to get off Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's at least a good reason to be there!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make sure to wash your eyes afterwards if you’re using the redesign or app.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Old reddit all the way through!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is a Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some really shitty site. Going downhill day by day. To the point even your typical user is looking for alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Sounds really complicated who wants to use that trash!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (6 children)

We need to figure out a way to recruit with to out outright posting it there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whenever I see someone asking about or speculating that users need somewhere else to go... I direct-message them and give them links to https://feddit.org/search and encourage them to make a login on some instance...

So far it doesn't seem reddit is snooping on direct messages ... yet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im sure there’d be a huge market for Lemmy if you just told people “do you want Reddit without ads or conservatives?”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s just bots enforcing this, images should work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So what I'm hearing is post coded shitposts on Reddit? Got it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

probably worth a try but I have to imagine reddit's algorithms can read the text in images

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd be surprised if it bans comments for images with Lemmy.

I think the bigger problem is how to post without appearing like spam to the human community.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea, but that requires considerably more processing than plain text

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

True, I'm not sure if they ocr every image or not, maybe they don't

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Text as pictures, word-of-mouth, bugging people in Youtube referring to Reddit to use Lemmy instead, coded languages...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

youtube

I am far from elitist in most anything I do or say. I try to be inclusive when introducing others to a topic, offer information freely and at any pace they can accept it, and generally enjoy the most mundane parts of life so long as they’re done in a healthy way. I say all of that to preface the fact that I cannot tolerate most users on YouTube. They're, by and large, just awful.

I do agree with your idea, but it physically hurts me to envision lemmy with YouTube comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, YouTube comments are a cesspool and reading them makes my IQ drop ten points each time. It's probably already in the negatives by now.

But we could/should exert some pressure on youtubers mentioning Reddit. Such as Francis John. Encouraging the Reddit→Lemmy movement in the same way as the Twitter→Mastodon one, for roughly the same reasons (except that instead of Musk, you got someone who praises Musk in reddit. Like, not even the piece of shit, but the fly around the piece of shit).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Lemmy's structure encourages better commenting than the drive by, engagement floated style of YouTube.

But you are not wrong either.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

goto twitter subreddits and post memes from mastodon

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