I can confirm, but looks like it happens in /r/technology, it didn't happened in /r/MurderedByWords.
This is how it looks from the account which posted it:
This how it looks from a different account:
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Interesting, thanks!
/r/technology might just have stricter external URLs policies, mentioning to /r/RedditAlternatives was the way to go
Yes, r/technology removed my links to pixelfed instances, and they unremoved them after I messaged them.
Still shocking to me that /r/RedditAlternatives isn't just one big "USE LEMMY/PIEFED/MBIN" sticky post but on the other hand there are a lot of Fedi-resitant people there so maybe it's a good thing to give that illusion of choice.
I see that someone else made a similar comment replacing piefed.social with piefed dot social
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ipe74t/reddit_plans_to_lock_some_content_behind_a/mcvdgpa/
"Different developers but can still access the same content" is a great succinct way of describing it.
Yeah I noticed my comments weren't getting any votes or replies so I tried opening them in Incognito mode and they didn't show up. So I had to censor the links like that.
r/technology seems really strict on these links