Haven’t seen that behavior myself yet, but yes, that does sound like either a bug or shadowbanning.

Excuse me for not being able to help.

I’ve encountered a few times where the post or a parent comment got deleted, which also appears to hide any sub-comments.

Might that be it?

That, and the reddit repost bots who sometimes mass post content from Reddit with no interaction on Lemmy.

Now, having the same post being replicated on multiple subs was no rarity on Reddit, but they tended to use crossposting.

I’ve found the current moderation tools to be enough to deal with the latter problem, but crossposting or linking posts would be a nice feature on Lemmy, even if I’m not sure how one would properly implement that on the fediverse. So yea…

We had this question before, so let’s get right back at it!

There was a rather controversial happening at Reddit a few months ago, which caused a lot (in Lemmy terms) of users to check out Lemmy.

Some of those users left rather soon, and some more keep dropping off regularly, as they can’t seem to adapt to Lemmy, or rather live without one or another feature or content from Reddit.

Now to your question, what can we do better?

Advertisement is of course one, but a large part of the users who left Lemmy we’re likely because of Lemmies unfinished state, so maturing Lemmy should be a top priority. “But properly maturing a social site requires an already existing user base” - and that’s exactly what we have right now, even if it’s dwindling.

Other solutions might also spring from creating the better user experience, such as features to moderate properly, both on a moderator and user basis, and of course to provide sufficient high-quality content.

We can of course try and forcefully promote Lemmy while promising rich lands and green fields, but I think that this is not the optimum path for Lemmy at this time, as we just might acquire the same bad reputation that vegetarians or Linux or a lot of other good initiatives suffered from.

There was a big influx of new users from Reddit in June. Many of those probably made an account to check out Lemmy, but somehow lost interest. Lemmy user count will most likely stabilize in a month or two.

Du får nok flere og bedre svar inde på den danske Lemmy: !spoergsmaal_og_svar@feddit.dk

OP would likely find better answers on the Danish Lemmy instance.

It is indeed a flaw, though it is in itself already a fix for the single-instance services, such as Reddit.

If an instance becomes unavailable/defederated on the fediverse, a large portion of content will become unavailable, but the service will still be functional. If a single-instance service becomes unavailable, or if the admins do something stupid, ALL data will be jeopardized.

I know that this might not be the answer you seek, but I think it helps adding perspective to the problem.

Wait a minute, did private API keys still work? If Tux’s Place does something fun with bots, then I might just lend an instance or two.

EDIT: Tux’s Place writes the following:

If you want to take part in the protest on r/place, feel free to join this server. We will not be organizing anything related to Linux out of protest of Reddit’s decisions, but if individuals feel the need to take part in what’s happening on r/place, feel free. https://discord.gg/DAYrtC64

Guess I’m staying put.

Quite the dilemma.

Promote the fediverse but give Reddit the traffic it currently desperately needs, or continue boycotting Reddit but don’t get any cheeky content.

I mean, it’s clear what we should do, but playing into Reddit’s hands and getting some chaos in return would also be fun.

I’ll skip this one, but you all are free to do whatever you like. I’ll be watching out for the (hopefully) resulting shitstorm. Go at it! :)