r/Canada is literally run with conservative propaganda efforts in mind. It's not surprised that any attempt to pull people out of the echo chamber is met with an instant ban.

Well, it's /r/Canada, which is just a right winged mod-controlled shit hole. All the progressives went to /r/onguardforthee a long time ago.

I look at the comments and they’re absolutely vile. The community has become so fucking toxic it’s unbearable.

So, maybe it's best to not invite people from there to Lemmy?

/r/canada is a cesspit with a white nationalist mod.

The sane Canadians always stuck to /r/onguardforthee

Isn't r/canada a conservative shithole?

In any case, every time I visit Reddit and look at my local subs (Montréal, Québec or Canada) I look at the comments and they're absolutely vile. The community has become so fucking toxic it's unbearable. And I also realized how my mental health actually improved since I left that community.

I used to dread seeing that I had messages on Reddit. My first thought would be "Oh, what did I do now?". On Lemmy, I'm much more interested in seeing any responses to my comments.

Replace Lemmy in your text with Facebook, Discord, Telegram or any other forum like group or simply imagine someone posting here to go to Reddit instead, seems a bit spammy doesn't it?

I suspect there is something going in on reddit in general. The moment you mention Lemmy, you get down voted.

My guess would be that it really had nothing to do with Canada. It had to do with you complaining about their subreddit and you telling people to leave it. I would have removed it as well. Dunno if I would have banned you. I would have had to seen it a number of times before I banned you I think.

I was banned from r/pics for a comment that read

And my ax

...on a thread. When I went to appeal, the admin couldn't explain how anyone arrived at the decision, or even show the context around the comment, but upheld the decision nonetheless.

You won't miss Reddit. I don't.

I likely would've removed the thread for being offtopic, but not permanently banned you.

I’m leaving that sub now as a protest.

R/quebec is just angry péquistes and r/montreal is angryphones and foreign students. R/Canada is toxic af . Yeah, reddit sucks big time now.

This could frankly be considered spam. Would be appropriate to ask the mods before promoting.

I've seen a few posts today from people complaining about being banned for promoting Lemmy.

Imo, the way to promote Lemmy isn't by spamming "JOIN LEMMY", but rather by meaningfully engaging in the community, and looking for ways to naturally bring up the positive points of this platform.

Like, if I saw a bunch of straight up ads for Lemmy (like this), I wouldn't be here now. I joined because people were having actual, real conversations and recommending Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. That's what we need to "advertise": Good, engaging conversations.

You guyz are pretty chill, let's keep it that way 😘✌️

Find a news article from a Canadian news source about Lemmy, register a new account, post it in r/Canada without any editorializing. 🥹

Imagine looking at this as someone who has never heard of lemmy. You are pulling people off the forum to a place that seems to have a poorly obfuscated "fedish" in the title in order to "talk". IDK I can see how people might assume you are a spam bot.

The mods there are super sketchy. I wouldn't be surprised if any of them are on someone's payroll.