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ricardobeatlast Saturday at 8:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Why would you get shadow banned? You think the format or backlinks would trigger bot detection systems?


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ryu2k2last Saturday at 8:53 AM

I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again.

When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.

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