Reddit nukes the /r/redditAlternatives list right as the mass exodus starts, shadowbans all posts and comments that mention certain alternatives in the moment people are looking for alternatives

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[–]magnora7[S] 55 insightful - 5 fun55 insightful - 4 fun56 insightful - 5 fun -  (16 children)

You literally cannot mention TheDonald.win without your post being completely shadowbanned, and this seems to apply for many other alternatives too. And this occurred on an already-existing post, not a new post. They searched old posts to nuke them. The whole list of alternatives that was stickied at the top of /r/redditAlternatives was deleted and d3rr had to re-write it like this to get past their new keyword filter.

This is insane! What website forbids even the mention of their competition? They've gone full authoritarian

[–]teelo 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You cant even post:

thedonald [dot] win

One of the admins shadowbanned that very quickly after a WRD mod used it to point out the shadowban.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://saidit.net/s/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/532q/reddit_nukes_the_rredditalternatives_list_right/j89r

[–]ManWithABanana 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You know what the conversation must have been.

"Let's ban The Donald."

"Okay, but they will just go to another site"

"Let them ! As long as it's not ours."

"But they're using our site, to drive traffic to their site !"

"Not anymore ! Let's shadowban posts that do that !"

I mean, I know free speech is dead on reddit. I was hoping though, that it was a more 95% still free speech, but they seem to be sliding down that slope closer to 0% very fast.

[–]NiceDickBro 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

They've decided the word soyboy is 'hate speech', if you type it there your comment will be automatically deleted... if that's not peak authoritarian garbage then I dunno what the fuck is.

Fuck that website.

[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wow. I wish someone would assemble the full list of words that generate automatic shadow-removals

[–]NiceDickBro 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah big time - I would adore seeing it, I'm sure it's full of nonsense.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

soyboy is 'hate speech'

shows you who reddit admins are, not that it's surprising at all. these are beta male sodomites that use linux instead of a real unix like chads with pulsating 9" erections

[–]Riva 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Peak??? Hmm... Not yet. They're still testing the waters. But it's a slippery slope for sure

[–]NiceDickBro 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If this isn't the peak I'm surely not going to hang out there to see what is, but I am looking forward to reading about it.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Could a person substitute "dot", with the phonetic "dät"?

Or replace "dot" with "period symbol"?

[–]h56hh56h54y5y 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You could, but it'll just get added to the filter, too. These people have nothing better to do with their lives than to hunt for shit to censor.

[–]Rationalmind 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The best part of their censorship though is the company ruins its own bottom line by actively forcing its customers to the competition. It’s not a great business strategy.

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree, it's very short-term thinking, and the fact I knew they'd do this type of thing eventually, is exactly why I knew saidit would work when we first started it.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

sounds like a fun game to start playing with reddit

  1. collect list of reddit alternatives
  2. make hundreds of reddit socks
  3. spam each reddit alternative everywhere on reddit using filter evasion (thedonald.win -> the donald d0t win, saidit.net -> s a i dit (.) net)

make sure lemmy the federated reddit alternative in the list for bonus points. destroying reddit more powerfully with alternative sites as well as technological solutions

[–]teelo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or figure out a way to phrase an alternate site in such a way that if they shadowban the phrase they'll be censoring saying "reddit".