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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

What does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don't get a notification? How do you find out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Logout and browse your user profile page via old.Reddit it'll say banned or suspended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Ah. That's even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

you do a thing, but there are no interactions. maybe in only certain contexts. so to you it appears as if you're engaging, but your posts and sometimes reactions/votes don't show up except to you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

haha. seeing as I don't usually get much interaction I would never notice.

switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same... there is a good chance with all that's going on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

yeah I probably wouldn't notice if everyone else in town was replaced by robots tomorrow until I went and tried to feed randos and found they didn't eat anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

How do you find out?

I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Hmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned.... but TBH it's more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.

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