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Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml

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It's sounds like was on an obsure-ish sub as well so management may have automated the process. Looks like they may have gone full Elon in their quest for the billionaire bucks.

Just FYI for anyone getting an either a cloud flare proxy error, or an nginx 500 page, it looks like they’re having some trouble at the moment. I did get thru after a refresh, but probably not best to hammer them.

Cloudflare proxy error here too.

Archive.org was astonishingly quick:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614125253/https://programmi...

hopefully I've fixed the problem. Nginx had only 768 worker connections allowed so I increased that.

https://archive.ph/QeMvZ

This was originally on beehaw.org, which could probably handle the HN hug of death better than the smaller instance in the original link, but just to be safe I archived it first.

forgot to respond to this, but yeah it would have handled it fine, except the default nginx config just wasn't set up correctly. sorry about that!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614125253/https://programmi...

Should you be surprised? Reddit has a reputation for automated censorship.

lemmy.ml is returning a 500 error right now. Is that maybe related? https://lemmy.ml/

It works for me, but it's definitely been fragile for a week or so since all the drama started.

Since when does Reddit block links to broken websites, though?

> Since when does Reddit block links to broken websites, though?

Looks like they're going full Twitter now, first they go after the API users, then they remove links to their fediverse alternative. What's the next step then?

ppl have to see every CEO posts

I got a 500 on first load, and intermittent issues on subsequent loads, so it's not just you!

lemmy.ml has been going through updates over the last day or so I think. https://lemmy.world has been a stable option.

The maintainer of lemmy.world also hosts the second-largest Mastodon server (mastodon.world), and they seem to be quite competent.

It’s getting hammered now too.

I'm the admin of https://lemm.ee, I believe we have a pretty decent setup (AFAIK we are the only serious instance doing horizontal scaling), so I would cautiously recommend anybody interested in Lemmy to consider us for their home instance.

Haven't experienced any noticeable performance issues yet on lemm.ee, but then again, we are still at only around 1k users. Fingers crossed I can keep it running smoothly (+ I am actively monitoring and scaling as needed, of course).

To play devil's advocate, I feel like most social platforms ban or limit most aspects of self-promotion or solicitation to other social platforms (whether out of self-interest or otherwise). Even Twitter for a brief while did this with Mastodon links back at the end of 2022.

I think most users of course don't like this as it feels like censorship, but on the flipside if I built a community and felt like users were joining my site just to try to solicit my community members to jump to a competitor, I'd probably not be too happy with that.

You want to google "anti-competitive practices".

Though I don't think Reddit is doing that right now. We would hear this happening a lot more if this was implemented site wide.

It's more likely that the mods of the specific subreddit have updated their own Automoderator rules to filter such posts.

I agree, without being able to read the linked the article, I assume this was a subreddit specific thing that happened. If that's the case, it's probably a good thing. I'm in a few subs where people constantly post links to alternatives and it floods the feed with useless posts. I understand that the lemmy situation is somewhat different as reddit is being a pain right now, but in general it's a dick move to go into a community and start spamming links to a different one.

The user linked to the comment in the thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsokunomoral/comments/148y47z/red...). It would appear as [removed] if it was removed by mods, a mod bot such as AutoModerator, the spam filter, or it was posted by a shadow-banned user. [Removed by Reddit] means that it was removed by Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations. I'm a mod elsewhere and the text matches other comments that AEO has removed on my sub.

It looks like the AEO removed it although I think as a normal user you actually can't distinguish if it was actually removed or the user just used that text. Great job at development, as usual, by Reddit.

But the modlog on new reddit should have a reason why it was removed and the actual text before removal. So the mods on that subreddit could verify that claim.

You say "even Twitter" as if that company is a paragon of ethics and even-handedness. If a place has to coerce people to stay in it, that's an awfully damning move. Well run communities don't need to do that because people actually want to use them over the competition.

To be clear I agree with you -- a large platform trying to coerce its users to stay is indeed a bad move. I'm also not trying to put Twitter on a pedestal here, mainly just trying to indicate that this isn't necessarily an "only Reddit" thing, but something other social platforms often do.

I could believe, however, that it could be hard to distinguish angry users that are protesting and telling people to move to another site because the platform / community is poorly run (as is the case with the current Reddit protest), vs potential "bad actors" that are hoping to capitalize and steal users to their own site even if communities were run perfectly.

In the former case it's justified, in the latter case even if it doesn't draw users away it is probably still, at best, spam.

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