Resolved:
Reddit itself doesn’t filter. Reddit HFY does.
It is not possible to link from Reddit HFY to Lemmy HFY directly due to shadow-filtering. The whole message with the link will be only visible for the creator. Working around with eg https://lemmy(dot)world/post/94994 though works as long as the user edits the link while copying it.
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Does Reddit block Links to Lemmy.World?
I just wanted to post a link in a Reddit Answer. To my utter surprise the message was not shown to other people. I as the author could see it without any hint it would be invisible.
But everyone else couldn’t see it. It just wasn’t there, even an direct linkt didn’t help. Editing the message didn’t help either. I had to delete it and rewrite it without mentioning “lemmy.world” in the message.
Here is a workaround where I avoid a link and it works:
Reddit Post without Link Workaround
Edit 1: To make myself clear again, you should see at least one message without a link and one with a link to Lemmy. But you will only see the one without a link. The trigger seems to be the exact word “lemmy.world”. Is that a known problem?
Edit 2: Wow, this goes deeper. A fresh Edge browser does show the link post. A old Edge browser doesn’t. All browsers with strict privacy settings don’t show the link. Firefox in Private Mode and with Adblock doesn’t show it. Edge and Chrome in private mode don’t show it either. A fresh chrome doesn’t show it. An older Installation of Chrome does. Reddit is doing something very strange.
Edit 3: https://lemmy(dot)world/post/3375662 seems to bypass the filter. So it is true: Reddit filters their biggest competitor.
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
Wow, this goes deeper. A fresh Edge browser does show the link post. A old Edge browser doesn’t. All browsers with strict privacy settings don’t show the link. Firefox in Private Mode and with Adblock doesn’t show it. Edge and Chrome in private mode don’t show it either. A fresh chrome doesn’t show it. An older Installation of Chrome does.
Reddit is doing something very strange.
Edit: It seems some browsers showed the messages when they were fresh in the cache. Obviously they are displayable for a fraction of a second before getting shadow-filtered.
Not surprised, Spez is a Musk simp and something like this is right out of Musk’s playbook
Well at least in this case it was the subreddit mods removing it, not the admins.
What is reddit HFY?
Humanity, Fuck Yeah!
No, I’m not kidding.
I think he means /r/hfy
What’s /r/hfy?
Humanity, Fuck Yeah!
No, I’m not kidding.
Just goes to show they take the competition seriously (as they should).
I don’t think Lemmy is even remotely close to being competition
It’s not yet in numbers, but this already feels like the spiritual successor to Reddit and basically has all of the functionality I care about from Reddit already.
Agreed, I love coming here to contribute now that I can’t comment or upvote on Reddit. This platform will eventually be considered Reddits successor.
Content? Check Comments? Check Doomscrolling? Check
Alrighty, everything checks out
Kill it before it can lay eggs?
I remember people reporting this around the time of the big migration to Lemmy.
sounds like you got shadow banned. could’ve been automated, could’ve been a reddit fanboy mod
Well as the banning is instantaneous I guess it is from Reddit itself. The post just never shows up. Simple tricks seem to bypass the filter: https://lemmy(dot)world/post/3375662 (Reddit filters their biggest competitor) gets through
It’s the spam filtering, and they consider people spamming any link… and each subreddit can set the spam fitler higher or not. This was going on long before Lemmy and I’ve seen it even with BBC links.
Mobile Firefox did not show a comment on the second link.
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
I’ve seen this come up with a large number of links on Reddit that were even to BBC website. It comes down to the subreddit settings on spam filtering…
I think the whole process of automatic hiding of spam filtering for user accounts is a bad-faith experience. People on Reddit are infamous for not actually reading links and wanting bots to bring in text and such, and I think a lot of the anti-spam measures cultivated this for a very long time.
One thing that crowdsoucing never was very good at was spam filtering… because too many would sell out and buy upvotes/likes on Twitter/Reddit etc.
Can you use a URL shortener like bit.ly to redirect users to Lemmy links?
I remember they were filtered even by Reddit because people couldn’t see where the link led.
Using Unicode-Chars doesn’t help for Links :-)
There is a stupid alternative: I now link my Reddit-Wiki (yes, my 30something stories have a Wiki) and put the link there. I have no filters on my Wiki ofcourse.
