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Discussion on: dev.to is shadow-banned on Reddit

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Simon Massey

Personally I don't use reddit as when I tried to post good things this sort of thing happened to me. Every couple of years I think I might be missing out and take a look and think ”meh”. Can anyone tell me what I might be missing out on to motivate me to try again?

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Gajus Kuizinas

As a content creator, you are missing out on big audience sizes. dev.to generated 2.2k views in 24 hours. Reddit generated 3.5k views in the first hour. That being said, it is true that Reddit comment threads often include personal attack and mocking comments. I deal with that by just being polite in return, providing the bare minimum response if one is needed (if something is technically inaccurately misrepresented about the contents of the article), and move on to other conversations.

As a content consumer, you are not missing out on much. Same content in one form or another reaches other networks.