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
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.