Just posted a question/discussion on Reddit about EV tarrifs. Was up for several hours, generated a great discussion and then it was removed by a mod. They reckoned it shouldn’t be there, despite loads of super-helpful comments that were relevant to the community. The mod directed me to another sub. I posted in there and it was auto removed in minutes. Then my account was banned. Platform is fucked.
You can’t even post on many main subs like /r/videos. I mean, it will appear that you’re posting, but no posts are visible. I’m not sure what’s up with those subs, they’re very popular so should be getting a new post every minute, but there’s new one every 20 minutes or so, so it’s safe to assume nearly all are getting removed
there is a ton of shadow banning going on too I think, just completely discouraging for new real users
though they have identified me and my main devices and IP, I have created accounts on unrelated devices in an unrelated location and still been unable to make posts successfully. yes, they make show up to my user logged in, but not to anyone else
No need to guess: if you open the parent comment in an incognito tab, you often won’t find your reply under it.
This typically depends on whether the subreddit has external links or links to ‘social media’ banned (where the latter includes YouTube). But also there’s apparently a simple slider setting adjusting the severity of automatic moderation, wherein anything that could be remotely construed as even vaguely offensive will get your comment auto-hidden at the higher settings.