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 -  (2 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

[–]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".