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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

If an instance has the most people and blocks those people from seeing your post, delays it from posting, or downgrades it as a source, it could easily be done. They have control over their own instance.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Can you elaborate? Arent blocks public via the admin logs in lemmy? In addition that info can be pulled from the api from any instance/fediverse protocol.

    I can reproduce of need be since i have my own lemmy and piefed instance and have over 20 years of software development experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    They* called it shadow banning on reddit, but I think of it more as shadow curating. I explain it a little more in other comments itt. Reddit does the curating as well.

    IMO, you could do this live pretty easily. When I first started posting, the trolls would complain that I wasn't consistently online, lol.

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