Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here
The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking "what is that?" It won't be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there..
With Fediverse, you could see the exact same post with different links generated from different instances, so theoretically you could bypass the filter by using obscure instances to share the post link, assuming they're just filtering links via domain name.
Does it really? Well, I guess that settles that debate.
Edit: just checked in an incognito tab. Yep, it was definitely removed. That's hilarious. Reddit is scared if they are spending developer time removing links to their competition.
That’s how a shadow ban works. You think you’re posting as normal, and you see your posts, but your posts don’t show up for others and your votes don’t count.
So it looks like this comment was shadow removed, but I can still interact with people outside this one comment, so it seems my account wasn't shadowbanned, but the definitely shadow removed the comment. I didn't even realize it was removed.
Interesting that they would put it on one comment, maybe it's a new tactic. My mod friends and I were shadow banned and couldn't see each others posts or comments at all in any sub on the affected accounts, even from unaffected accounts.
I also don't like the Lemmy devs because of the nonsense they pull around the topic of the Chinese and Russian governments.
Still don't block the people on my subs from talking about it. Because I'm not an asshole, and I don't have to like everything that gets posted to my subs.
Yeah I end up having to report about 10 threads a day to reddit for report abuse spam because of this, they report it as hate speech when people talk about the blackout positively, trying to get people banned to silence them. The only way to prevent that is report each case of it to the admins so they know it's a targeted attack. What these assholes are ACTUALLY doing is just making more work for the moderators that care if their members are banned over some dumb shit.
It's been one week since spez looked at me Cocked his head to the side and said, "I'm angry" Five days since I joined Lemmy Saying, "Get your API together, come back and see me" Three days since the living room I realized it's the IPO’s fault, but couldn't see it through Yesterday, Spez was blocking me But it'll still be two days 'til he says he’s sorry
Oh, probably like -5 days. I'm sure they'd just be blacklisting domains, though. Linking to smaller, lesser-known instances that don't literally have "Lemmy" in their URL might work, though. Especially if you don't re-use any particular instance too frequently.
Hm. Generally, yes. I'm on kbin.social. tl;dr: Fantastic and excellent social media alternative, but as someone that's worked years in ITSec, I have some huge concerns.
Things I found surprising:
Registration was intuitive and easy.
There's already a huge volume of good content readily available without having to "find it" (I had imagined it being more like ""the dark web"", i.e. you have to know what site you're looking for
Voting transparency omg holy shit. I remember when Reddit introduced vote fuzzing and it was the dumbest thing. At least on kbin, who upvotes/downvotes something is publicly viewable. So rather than "let's fuzz the votes to throw off the bots", simply showing who voted allows you to easily find the troll downvoting everything or a flood of bots or so on. I imagine there's probably not much tooling around this yet, but there inevitably will be.
Things I've found confusing, concerning, or have questions about (feel free to point me in the direction of a good magazine or FAQ as well):
WTF is boost vs upvote?
Are usernames unique across the fediverse, or only across instances? (Is there anything preventing me from registering e.g. Cryst@kbin.social , then jumping on this thread and pretending to be you, or vice versa?)
What happens if an instance closes up shop? Is there any way to migrate everyone's data over to another instance?
What happens if I decide I hate kbin.social admins, or you decide you hate lemmy.ca admins - are either of us able to fairly seamlessly move our identities from one server to another? Or would it be "nope, create a new account and start over"?
On reddit, a lot of good things happen around flairing (users, posts). Does fediverse have an equivalent?
Sometimes as I'm browsing I find myself on a different server (I think) and the language of the GUI is entirely switched to Arabic or similar. I still haven't figured out how to fix that or even what's doing it.
I still need to set up my own instance and play with that too.
My understanding is that our user profiles are tied to an instance and you cannot transfer it. I saw a post saying it would be good tonhave a centralized user account you can sign into different instances with so you don’t have this issue. I think you could totally create a Cryst@kbin.social and pretend to be me. I guess that means there could be multiple users with the same user names. If you end up not liking your instance or it gets shit down I think you just move on.
I registered as Emotional_Series7814 on kbin.social. Then I saw a post recommending that we don’t all register on the main site but scatter to other instances—after all, the point is to _de_centralize. So I went to kbin.cafe, attempted to register as Emotional_Series7814, and succeeded.
I've been kind of suggesting the same thing a few times inside of posts. I'm coming at it from the perspective of having had to do a lot of in-person recruiting for voluntary activities, mentoring, and teaching -- you cannot tell people things like "you should just join lemmy/kbin" -- you have to wait for them to ask "how do I join lemmy/kbin?"
That's okay! It just means that the focus when introducing people to it has to be "here's what you're missing", positive about where they could go rather than negative about where they are.
It's an uphill battle trying to argue with people who do have a point about it being harder to use (we shouldn't gaslight people), but they're also saying what the audience is wanting to hear because it gives them permission to do nothing.
How many are just admin accounts or sock puppets for some agenda or another anyway?
Consider focusing on the positive -- link to specific posts on these systems that are objectively worth going to participate in. They don't need an account to read and enjoy.
Then, if they discover that they wish that they could participate in the thread -- that is the time to explain that they should just join whatever instance the post they really enjoyed was on for starters. They'll realize that they can see magazines from other instances, probably after a week when they realize other instance domain names are showing up on things. Then some nice person explains what's going on.
And now they've convinced themselves it's worth joining...
Absolutely, I'm not saying to spam anything. However, if every single post or comment with a fed url is deleted by automod, there should be a workaround
If every single post or comment with a fed url on a particular subreddit is being deleted by automod, then it's because the mods of the subreddit presumably set it that way, and their wishes should be respected. Not respecting the wishes of subreddit mods was exactly how reddit got itself into the mess it is now in.
I would love to pick one maybe two subreddits to focus on taking the top posts and just reposting them to the communities here, but I’m kinda waiting on community consolidation to get fixed so I don’t waste time posting to empty communities. Also if there was a Reddit to Lemmy post migration script or something to automate it that would be awesome
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