I learned about Lemmy from reddit.
Soooo......
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Same. But not like anything popular/visible.
I found it while sorting by controversial. Then when I got banned for some BS, decided to finally figure this whole "Lemmy" thing out.
Reddit as in the company? Of course, the first Reddit search result has been manually set to a "Stay away from Lemmy" post.
I would never have known that Lemmy existed, if it weren't for redditors telling me about it around the time Spez went nuclear on 3rd party apps. And here I thought that everyone on Lemmy came from reddit.
FWIW, I've heard that they've recently been censoring any mentions of Lemmy. They're obviously afraid of reddit becoming a repeat of digg. Which is why they've been slowly enshittifying the place instead of doing all at once like digg did. Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez.
Fuck Reddit and fuck spez! Like you said, the second redditors became an ad commodity that site should have died an undignified death.
Now it’s a place for Nazi sympathizers and boot licks.
FWIW, I've heard that they've recently been censoring any mentions of Lemmy.
Reddit doesn't do that, it's overzealous moderators that do. Like on /r/technology iirc.
/r/redditalternatives for example doesn't get posts that mention Lemmy removed. If Reddit blanket censored the term, it would apply there too.
Discussion of Lemmy doesn't seem to be actively stifled, if that's what you mean. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ exists
They do have a history of removing threads and posts that get too popular though. I remember several incidents where highly upvoted comments and posts about Lemmy got removed for seemingly no reason.
It's probably impossible for them to entirely prevent discussion about Lemmy so they instead astroturf and try to manipulate the discussion to portray the platform in a bad light. It seems to be an extremely effective tactic, unfortunately for us.
Reddit's obfuscation of upvotes and downvotes is problematic, and makes it trivial for them to manipulate any discussion if they feel like it. Not to mention their ability to just nuke anything they don't like with no repercussions.
Thanks. Wonder about reach—if a post there went viral somehow, if it would be allowed to run its natural course onto r/all
Maybe so, such a small sub, might not have any “defenses” against it haha. hmm but suppose it could show in a trending sidebar at some point if they’re still doing that. Ah, guess we could test whether their threads ever get recommended when browsing similar threads on other subs.
Rando-mirror linker version btw:
https://farside.link/https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/
I've seen a few big threads talking about Lemmy (because people posted links to them here, on Lemmy to explain how this whole thing works and get people on board), but at the same time I've also seen people here posting their experiences with such discussions being removed.
I would have to suspect the admins aren't doing anything, but the individual mods of some ass-kissing subreddits do so because they feel threatened on behalf of the company they volunteer to prop up.
Do you mean Reddit the company, or the Reddit the community?
I think the answers are "No", and "A little. It often gets deleted when mentioned."
Reddit or the community
Yes
I don't see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I'm primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.
Reddit:
Ya b/c it’s not plastered with ads, what’s even the point of this place if the advertisers haven’t swarmed it? :)
by "The Reddit" you mean the owners/shareholders? Why would they do that?
Does "Reddit" acknowledge the existence of Facebook, Twitter or Digg?
There is literally a ton of Twitter subs
What does that have to do with anything? You think Reddit not banning them is acknowledgement?
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