It’s so toxic how Youtube will remove your comment on a video if you mention “Lemmy” or any other suggestion to descentralized alternatives to Technofeudalism. This has also happened to me on Reddit.
It’s frustrating that they treat the fediverse like a trigger word, it drowns the possibility to guide people to new communities.
Edit: Best guess is the VPN server that I was using was blacklisted. It’s weird to believe the word ‘Lemmy’ or ‘Fediverse’ is blacklisted as well, but I cant find other reasons.
If I had to hazard a guess, your comment managed to violate another guideline or contained unsuitable language. I would also not be surprised to learn that if we managed to get ahold of the person who deleted your comment we would find out that you had a history of questionable comments and that’s why the moderative leeway afforded to you may have been cut short. The fediverse will not benefit from a crusade into other platforms in the same way coca cola doesn’t advertize with the slogan “hey, you fucking loser, you would benefit from this cool beverage of ours.”
I’m basing my guess - and I could be wrong of course - on the fact that you think I was gatekeeping rather than describing the status quo.