Not the same message but yeah basically all of their newer posts were about lemmy (and how much better it was, and encouraging people to switch)

They also crossposted their post >20 times according to reddit search

https://i.imgur.com/scny5VP.png

Yeah, that's what I suspected. Not that Reddit hasn't been having shit moderation, but this looks like it makes sense to be flagged as spam. An overzealous misguided user who desperately looking to get involved. Intentions may have been good, but execution was poor.

IMO the better way to do the same thing would have been to write a post specific to each tool addressing how it could integrate with Lemmy.

Everything about this seems incredibly suspect. Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that). This just seems to be a shill capitalizing on the news, plain and simple.

> there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that

Which one?

/r/RedditAlternatives ( https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ )

It comes complete with a wiki page that lists many of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/yttdlc/...

Seems to be working too. I hadn't even heard of lemmy until I saw this post on HN.

>Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative

They absolutely do. Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.

> Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.

On whole plebbit or just some subs?

Whole site. I've heard that you'll get banned even for a DM with the url.

They probably got suspended for a few days for spamming, but I bet they didn't get banned. I don't think reddit wants a martyr account lol

I’d say it depends. In context of reddit’s recent actions excessive promotion of reddit alternatives seems on topic.

I’m sure there’s a limit to that too, especially if promoting just a single page. But even then a warning may have been a better response.

There is a lot of spam on reddit that mods choose not to address. Political subs with a few accounts whitelisted for thread submission, posting the same agitprop, dateless twitter screenshots talking about how shitty Corp X or Politician Y is. Comment bots that will have entire conversations with each other with meme banter, building upvotes.

Then there are the less malicious ones, like the quote bots on Lord of the Rings subs.

If this person was banned for having a template message about migrating to a different site, it shows a priority by reddit admins to eliminate message spreading about a competitor. It's trash.

I've written one comment with a link to Lemmy on one of my alt, permanently suspended the next day, I appealed and they refused it without replying on why I was suspended.