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This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times.
Given he apparently takes inspiration from Elon Musk, it's only a matter of time until u/spez starts adding post view limits unless you pay extra.
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I called this happening right when Spez said he wanted to emulate elon. The other shoe has dropped
I assume eventually all subreddits will be locked to non registered users on mobile…and PC
I'd guess it does the news website thing. Scroll down and get meet with a create account blocking barrier.
Yeah. Users who can stomach it should be sneaking back and pointing more refugees to Lemmy. Honestly it should be bots being like "If you like r/pics stay here BUT if you like r/pics and hate Reddit's policies? Try c/pics@lemmy.world" and just have the bot script for communities the fediverse has equivalents for. We're growing still but it's not like I'm seeing much Lemmy mentions in the discussion threads yet. That ship is sinking though.
This is working as intended as Reddit is actively suppressing and shadowbanning any comment or post that mentions Lemmy or hyperlinks
Ah, trying to stop the Exodus by any means necessary. Lol. Time to find a good thread to get my old account banned on then!
F /u/spez is only following Twitter who've already banned user profiles & comments from containing links to Mastadon, Post, Instagram & others.
I'm not saying that isn't happening but it must be happening selectively because the small niche subreddit I moderate still has the post up where I announced and linked to the Lemmy community I made. I just went to the subreddit in my browser while logged out to verify that it's not in the shadows, but I could see it.
Yeah, it should be obvious that you won't have much success using Reddit as a platform to direct users away from Reddit. They've made it pretty clear by now that they aren't free or open. Makes me wonder what other topics they've done this more subtlety for, or will do in the future.
If you want to direct people to Reddit alternatives, you'll probably have the most luck on platforms that aren't Reddit.
Though I do wonder if Twitter and the meta platforms will also block it, since they are competing with the fediverse as well (though meta in a EEE kinda sense, so they'd need to walk a finer line since they are supposed to be embracing right now).
YouTube might be a place to do it.