As you can see on Lemmy dev parentis_shotgun’s profile, they were very active plugging Lemmy and answering questions in the Apolo dev’s thread about Reddit’s API pricing, with 120 total comments made in that post.

They were well-received, with 3 of their comments getting over 400 upvotes. However, reddit admins must have noticed that reddit is bleeding users to Lemmy, because all but 2 of parentis_shotgun’s 120 comments (one about Beehaw and one about Microsoft) in that thread are removed.

Conclusion: We need more Lemmyposting on reddit so people know to join

Edit: @dessalines@lemmy.ml posted about it

  • ImOnADiet
    12·
    1 year ago

    it was actually apollo mods, when reddit admins remove somthing it shows as [removed by reddit], I don’t think Apollo’s dev removed them himself though

    • sovietknucklesOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      Oh, okay. The reason I didn’t rule out it being an admin is that Reveddit says [removed] unknown if mod/auto (1, 2, 3).

      Not that Reveddit is very useful with Pushift now being defunct…

      • ImOnADiet
        8·
        1 year ago

        I would link a comment that I’ve responded to on reddit that’s been removed by reddit, but I’d like to keep my reddit and lemmygrad identities separate lol

  • darkcalling
    9·
    1 year ago

    They were removed by the sub mods who are probably seething liberals angry at seeing a tankie show up with their foss offerings. Reddit admin removals are very obvious and though they may have delisted/de-ranked posts about the api changes (people were saying they did), I doubt they went into them, went down-thread and removed comments individually.

    Christian himself is clearly a bog standard reddit liberal. “Wholesome 100” type and not terribly openly political on his main account (though who can say, he could be PCM’s top poster on an alt).

    Christian is also someone who makes his livelihood off of a reddit app. I mean he brings in big money, enough that he feels comfortable annually donating tens of thousands of dollars to animal shelters in fundraisers.

    So telling a guy who subsists off charging people to get involved with a FOSS project which he may or may not be allowed to monetize (given the FOSS community’s general reactions to paywalls) he should join a FOSS replacement may be a non-starter anyways. He’s either going to have to get a software-dev day-job (and in Canada he won’t exactly have pickings among top companies despite his renown and skill) OR hope reddit gives in (unlikely) OR launch himself into a joint project with other reddit devs on something he can monetize (either a site with ads or subscription or a mobile app).

    Seeing as the VC free money for tech startups pipeline has been turned off and selling something to dethrone an existing large social media site has never been that popular to begin with even when the money was freely flowing I don’t think he can count on getting investors to just pay for an ad-less, subscription-less, free site endeavor.