https://bsky.app/profile/tendermiasma.com/post/3mn3g2ey3m225
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deenom: Bluesky says this label will leave in 22 days, so this seems like a punishment for some undisclosed bad behavior.
tendermiasma: And there it is, staff’s new favorite silencing tool
Did reddit ever do something like this?
quarantines maybe
No maybe - definitely. I read that quarantined subs slowly died from being unfindable to new users - as mods & admins perma-banned users for spurious reasons, they had difficulty getting back into subs they used to be subscribed to under a new username.
That’s true except in the case of this site’s predecessor r/chapotraphouse, CTH continued to show rapid growth even after quarantine, nothing could stop it and it was becoming a phenomena so they had to outright ban it instead because they didn’t want a space dominated by communists to be a major force on the site.
It was my understanding that quarantined subs were unfindable - how did new users find it?
Quarantine would hide a subreddit from showing up in search or normal algorithm listings but people still talked about it and linked to it everywhere on the site due to sheer infamy.
Kinda like nobody can stop talking about hexbear on lemmy even though they’ve all defederated from us, the ghost of communism lives rent free in their heads, haunting them.
So true. When I was searching for a new home hexbear had already been defederated but due to the infamy I remembered it and applied. Nice to be part of the ghost.
I would’ve never thought to join if the infamy didn’t make me want to check it out
Directly typing the name, probably.
I don’t think that’s true.
That’s what I read, with the whole idea being not accused of censoring and yet advertisers couldn’t find them with a search. If that’s not how it worked, then what exactly did quarantining subs do?
You can’t see quarantined subs when you are not already a member.
They had shadow banned stuff yeah.