Resolved:
Reddit itself doesn’t filter. Reddit HFY does.
It is not possible to link from Reddit HFY to Lemmy HFY directly due to shadow-filtering. The whole message with the link will be only visible for the creator. Working around with eg https://lemmy(dot)world/post/94994 though works as long as the user edits the link while copying it.
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Does Reddit block Links to Lemmy.World?
I just wanted to post a link in a Reddit Answer. To my utter surprise the message was not shown to other people. I as the author could see it without any hint it would be invisible.
But everyone else couldn’t see it. It just wasn’t there, even an direct linkt didn’t help. Editing the message didn’t help either. I had to delete it and rewrite it without mentioning “lemmy.world” in the message.
Here is a workaround where I avoid a link and it works:
Reddit Post without Link Workaround
Edit 1: To make myself clear again, you should see at least one message without a link and one with a link to Lemmy. But you will only see the one without a link. The trigger seems to be the exact word “lemmy.world”. Is that a known problem?
Edit 2: Wow, this goes deeper. A fresh Edge browser does show the link post. A old Edge browser doesn’t. All browsers with strict privacy settings don’t show the link. Firefox in Private Mode and with Adblock doesn’t show it. Edge and Chrome in private mode don’t show it either. A fresh chrome doesn’t show it. An older Installation of Chrome does. Reddit is doing something very strange.
Edit 3: https://lemmy(dot)world/post/3375662 seems to bypass the filter. So it is true: Reddit filters their biggest competitor.
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
Oh, I agree! Lemmy has completely replaced Reddit for me and I love how dynamic everything still is with all these new users and communities. But I’m also under no illusion that this is a bubble, and the vast, vast majority of Reddit users don’t care about all the shit that has been going on, or don’t even know and thus will just stay. If Reddit dies, it’ll be because it gets mismanaged to the point of collapsing, not because Lemmy grows large enough to challenge it.
I’m happy to eat my words though, so we’ll see how everything plays out.
Well, for Writing Edits Lemmy barely cuts it right now. I am quite active on r/HFY and c/HFY. Sure, the 200 people reading your story make great chats. But on Reddit you get 100.000 readers (my best story had 200.000). Even though they chat a lot less.
Do you really care about 100.000 randos reading you comment vs a few that actually engage in a conversation with you?
Actually: Yes. It gives me at least a feed back how many people even click on the story. It informs me if people are even aware of my story. Sure, an Upvote or a Comment are even better.
That is actually a BIG down point on Lemmy. I have no feed back on views. While I already get around 5-10% of the Upvotes and 10-20% of the comments I am sure the total numbers of views is closer to 1-2%. It is just that the Lemmy Community is more communicative making the difference.