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This place is a strong anti-Reddit echo chamber, it's not really the best place to ask about this.
Do you know if the post was removed by a moderator or Reddit themselves?
Iirc a post can look removed if automoderator marked it for a manual moderator review. This can happen for reasons like your account being too new, you not having enough karma, or you using certain keywords they want to manually review. It's usually meant to prevent spam, not anything nefarious.
I've seen someone before complain on Lemmy about this exact issue, and it turned out the post in question was clearly there on their profile because the mods approved it between them complaining here and me checking their Reddit profile.
It's also possible that your understanding of what's wrong to say might be wrong. This is especially the case if Reddit themselves removed your post. They don't just do that for no reason. Even when a post gets removed for mentioning Lemmy, that's overzealous mods doing the removal, not the admins.
It's also possible that your post might look innocuous to you, but not to another person. For example, there are certain numbers that when used can get you labeled a neo nazi. Expressions might get misunderstood. English being a second language for either side might lead to misleading language or misinterpretations. Basically just listing potential reasons here I can come up with for why an innocuous looking post might get removed without ill intent, not saying any of this is justified imo.
If the post was removed by a moderator, the answer to your final question is simple: people post to a different subreddit that mod isn't in control of.
Great answer. I would also say that lemmy users tend to be more politically engaged in both directions, so there is less of a homogenisation of view points into the "reddit-consensus" when it comes to upvotes.
I remember using reddit in 2012, being at the end of my teen years, and only having discovered it a few years before: everyone on there seemed to clever compared to other social media at the time and I let the "reddit-consensus" genuinely affect my opinions. There was this post in 2012 where the OP was fearmongering about a free trade agreement Obama was trying to negotiate, saying it would harm small businesses in the US, with protectionism very much being the consensus. I had this moment of incongruity where I wanted to offload my critical thinking to the consensus but at the same time I thought, "This isn't right; I usually support free trade deals..." Bit of a formative experience in terms of using more critical thinking when browsing the internet.