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EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 96 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's a reddit?

Oh, yea, that dumpster fire I walked away from 2 years ago. It still exists?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 42 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Sadly, yes.

Not gonna lie, I was only there to encourage people to get off Reddit.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make sure to wash your eyes afterwards if you’re using the redesign or app.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Old reddit all the way through!

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the fuck is a Reddit?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some really shitty site. Going downhill day by day. To the point even your typical user is looking for alternatives.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Sounds really complicated who wants to use that trash!

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 month ago (6 children)

🄻🄴🄼🄼🅈

🅻🅴🅼🅼🆈

𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚖𝚢

𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕞𝕪

ʟᴇᴍᴍʏ

𝔩𝔢𝔪𝔪𝔶

𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖞

ℓємму

𝓁ℯ𝓂𝓂𝓎

𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓶𝔂

ⓛⓔⓜⓜⓨ

🅛🅔🅜🅜🅨

lemmy

𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆

𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐲

𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘮𝘺

𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑚𝑦

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l͟e͟m͟m͟y͟

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̶ʎɯɯǝl

ymmɘl

ˡᵉᵐᵐʸ

🇱​🇪​🇲​🇲​🇾​

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

J̷͚̦͙̦̅̊̾̓͂̋̋͊̆́͐͑͜O̸̧̨̱̰͚͍̼̺̰͇͎̜̺̥͋͊́Ĭ̸̢̥͖̲̗̉͊̈́̐ͅN̷̛̤̙̖̗̰̲̪̰̰͓̪̒̊̂̑̑͌͑̒̄̀̆̇͒͌͐̚ ̸̡̨̲̣̳̪̮͈̩̭̙͈̗̭͖̃̏̽̄͆͌̂̀́͒̚͜L̸͇͇̬̜͈͔̩̣̲̩̳͉̥̳̈̒̉̑̅͑̀͊̓̍́͌̊̓̕͝Ẻ̷̡̟͔̖̯͕̩͎̺̮̙̜̭̬͈̦͊͆͜M̸̜̲̱͍̱̪̗̘̯̗̳̯̥͂̆̈̄̉͋͂M̸̡̤͈̝̺͖͉̺̓̍̄̂̾̍̓̆͆̑̀̏͐̕͝Y̶̢̜̱̘̟̩̠͊͂̀̿

[–] qwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

ⓛⓔⓜⓜⓨ in bio

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🇱​🇪​🇲​🇲​🇾

I see these characters and I immediately think of the @yiffit user lol

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I straight up got my account of 2 years deleted for advertising Lemmy lol, nothing of value was lost that day

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

RIP ;_;7

They're really trying to repeat the fate of Digg, aren't they? People would advertise the shit out of Reddit in Digg, to encourage users to move. Well - perhaps we should test if history does repeat itself.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Perhaps using this picture instead of writing the link in plain text will help prevent the Reddit bots from detecting that one is recommending Lemmy there:

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if that's the captcha to get in... i'm out.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Oh, no, I should have explained! That's something to help post the link hopefully without the Reddit bots detecting it. I've edited the post.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No one regrets getting banned from nazi digg.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't regret being banned from the fly [Reddit] licking the Nazi shit [Twitter]. But I think it's important for people advertising Lemmy there to know.

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[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We need to figure out a way to recruit with to out outright posting it there.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Text as pictures, word-of-mouth, bugging people in Youtube referring to Reddit to use Lemmy instead, coded languages...

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

goto twitter subreddits and post memes from mastodon

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

youtube

I am far from elitist in most anything I do or say. I try to be inclusive when introducing others to a topic, offer information freely and at any pace they can accept it, and generally enjoy the most mundane parts of life so long as they’re done in a healthy way. I say all of that to preface the fact that I cannot tolerate most users on YouTube. They're, by and large, just awful.

I do agree with your idea, but it physically hurts me to envision lemmy with YouTube comments.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s just bots enforcing this, images should work.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

probably worth a try but I have to imagine reddit's algorithms can read the text in images

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, but that requires considerably more processing than plain text

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Im sure there’d be a huge market for Lemmy if you just told people “do you want Reddit without ads or conservatives?”

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[–] Littux@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I moderate r/spezholedesign and have set up AutoModerator to promote Lemmy on all posts. I have made a post directly linking to lemmy.world and nothing has happened. I've never gotten shadowbanned or suspended

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have no idea why I was shadowbanned and you weren't, then. Perhaps account age and/or karma had a role? (My account was five days old, and barely any karma.)

[–] Littux@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's probably the reason. My account is 1y 4m old and has 32K Karma. They don't ban high karma users that fast since it would sharply reduce the content on the site.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's not a shadowban, that's a straight up suspension.

A shadowban is just when your posts and comments are filtered and hidden from others.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Yes, it is a shadowban. It fits perfectly what you said: the posts and comments are filtered and hidden from the others.

Here is another proof that this is a shadowban:

Left: the content is shown to the user when they're logged in, and they can still submit new content.

Right: the content is not shown to someone who is logged off.

On the other hand, a typical suspension leaves the content visible for everyone else, it tells the user "you've been permanently suspended from Reddit [insert gaslighting message]", and the user cannot submit new content.

Note that a shadowban is considerably worse than a suspension. Not that I care, though - I'm sharing this here because it is relevant for people trying to convince others to migrate to the Fediverse.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got shadow banned years ago for sharing the link to the εxodus privacy analysis of the Reddit app. There is a reason why they keep trying to pressure their users to use their app. It's farming their personal data.

[–] aurelar@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you link it here? I've never heard of this analysis

[–] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

You can't save them. Whoever is willing and mentally agile enough to look for alternatives will find us. Honestly, at this point, I'd be glad if especially the folks commenting on Reddit's mainstream subs did not join Lemmy and capture it with their boring, antiquated, views and extremely repetitive quips.

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[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's interesting. I haven't been banned for mentioning r/RedditAlternatives yet. I'm honestly shocked that sub still exists.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Fuck Reddit, they banned me because I reported discrimination and it was easier to get rid of the whiner than do their jobs.

Now I can't talk nerdshit about The Sims anymore

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Get the sims community started on Lemmy. Try to convince some people to join

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Where Is the shadow part of the ban?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

left side: logged in. exists.

right side: private window, not logged in. does not exist.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Interesting trick I should save for future use.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

It's just like adarza said.

Left: logged in. My own activity is shown.
Center: logged out, old reddit. It claims that the user doesn't exist.
Right: logged out, new reddit. It claims that the user was suspended.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

A shadow ban is where they didn't tell you that you were banned. A shadow banned user could go for years commenting and posting and never realised they were banned. It's only if they check their posts while logged out that they realise.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I'd imagine in that particular case it felt like spam. If someone came through here and was named Nick_From_Nike and only posted in threads related to Nike and only positively about Nike, I feel like many would quirk a brow.

Are we seeing shadowbans with established accounts that don't have lemmy in their username? Considering r/redditalternatives is still going strong, seems unlikely.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Three-ish years ago, my comments kept getting eaten by shitty regexes, and I threw my hands up and started placing that after every fucking vowel. It worked everywhere except the few subs so pants-on-head stupid that they had a secret maximum comment length. I just. I don't. Fuck some moderators, y'know? Some people cannot be trusted with the tiniest bit of power. Misery multipliers.

Related unicode shenanigans: inhibit symmetric swapping, pop directional isolate, zero width non-joiner, zero width space. I have more I'll keep in reserve.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

And odds are that the admins are basically running some glorified version of AutoMod, so fucking with their regex would work nicely. I'll try this next account, thank you! (Also adding it to the OP)

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Try lem my dot (world/ee/ect...) make it look strange but people will get it.

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