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I cant say for sure but it would make sense that they did a regex or something. We could go around that the same way spammers get around spam filters. By writing L3mmy for instance or something else entirely.
I think links to world dont work at all (just a rumor I heard) so we could use link shorteners.
I'm sure people will stampede and trample each other on their way to try out a website that uses spammers' tactics for promotion
Oh you mean like every other successful business? Yeah, you‘re probably right. Nobody will use it.
ah yes, all those successful and well respected businesses selling V1agra, this is the model we should all look up to
Businesses generally shouldnt be „respected“. People should. Companies use all kinds of trickery (bots for example) to make their platforms successful. Youtube started as a copyright infringement platform, until they pulled the ladder up after them.
I‘m not talking about v1agra. I‘m talking about getting your hands dirty if you want to get work done.
Not like I would know, having built quite a couple companies.
Cynicism is better than naivete but it’s not the last stage of growing up.
Could make use of Unicode lookalike letters (е and у in this case) to write Lemmy as Lеmmу.
I honestly doubt that works. If Reddit really has a blacklist of keywords it's almost certainly accounting for this kind of thing.
Honestly, no. People are pretty bad at filtering for Unicode alternative characters. It can be worked around when the site admins understand what's going on, but...have fun skimming all of the Unicode code pages for every possible lookalike character.
Its their job to do this but I think OP is right, we need to try. As much as it sucks, marketing is important to succeed in the long run. Not trying to get the whole of reddit in here but if they can manage to not talk about us we would have a problem I believe.
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