This kind of thing goes way back. I mean you’ll get a lot of content deleted on most web forums, but the one universally verboten thing, above all, priority zero, until the end of time, is: no. fucking. recruitment. to. competing. forums!
If you ask a lot of web forum owners how their site got started, more than half of them will tell you “well there was this other forum but their server went down for 3 days and people needed a place to go.”
Communities are portable. Reddit knows this. Every site manager knows this.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
To be fair advertising Lemmy/Piefed is one of the few good uses of reddit