- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
Summary
Hundreds of subreddits are debating banning links to X.com (formerly Twitter) following Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at a Trump rally.
Dozens of subreddit moderators have already implemented bans, while others are holding votes among their communities.
The bans span political, regional, and topical subreddits, including r/NewJersey, r/londonOntario, and r/christianity, with some highlighting Musk’s gesture alongside neo-Nazi imagery.
This move reflects growing backlash against Musk and his platform over perceived alignment with extremist symbolism.
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What a coincidence, I’ve been banning all links to reddit. This is working out great.
Until spaz says that’s a no go and forces them to allow them. Just don’t use reddit
That won’t happen. As Twitter dies those users have to go somewhere. While Reddit isn’t a direct competitor as a service, it is in terms of time/eyeballs.
Ideally folks would move to Mastodon/Lemmy/etc, but that’s a different problem.
Issue is bluesky is where they’re going but from what I’ve read a bridge could be made? Still very new to this, not sure how that would work.
I have an account for a few specific subs (that shut down during the strike) that don’t have Lemmy equivalents. But I really don’t browse. The only time I get on there is to check reactions to big events (football games, new movies, etc). And even then it’s pretty rare.
Be the change you want to see in the Fediverse.
Thanks for that. I have always been a lurker on reddit and Lemmy (and the other platforms). It’s really pushed me to join and have a voice here.
Deadass, its like old reddit, make a community or just post something you are interested in, people will likely respond, don’t trip about numbers, your posts are shown to a greater pool of people that are likely to interact in a meaningful way. Compare it to reddit where you might get pelted with downvotes or can’t even post in some communities without following the excessive rules (or enough karma, i joined before this was an issue). Reddit also has the problem where if you have tons of ppl commenting, ppl just say shit without thinking or act like they have credibility when they don’t. Tons of shills for brands, you’d think the options in the sidebar there for each niche were the only viable ones.
To anyone else out there thinking about this? Do it. I took over /c/gamedev a couple of months back. Not because I dislike anytging about r/gamedev, but because I want more than one place for that kind of thing on the Internet, and am beginning less of a fan of reddit itself.
(And yes, it’s slow going, especially with the holidays and job hunting. But I’m okay with that.)
Wish I were a game developer so I could help out!
Hey, I’m just a hobbyist. (I’ve tooled around with the programming and made a few things I never released, but I work in journalism, and not games journalism!) If there’s a community you want to help, the best thing you can do is comment, upvote, and when possible, make a post. And if you want to RUN one, trying is better than just letting things not exist. If people don’t like it, they can downvote your posts. That’s fine too.
I’m a professional embedded systems engineer, and I do have some hobby projects related to game dev, and I do intend to share when I have something shareable!
I appreciate the support. I actually do post in those situations. And when I say there isn’t a Lemmy equivalent, I mean those communities are dead.
I just like to see what other people’s reactions are, and I like to see some of other people’s content from time to time. Also, I don’t mind supporting those subs that stood up to the 3rd party app purge.
Or until 2 days, like most (or many) of the subreddits participating in the blackout lol
Honestly the fact how bad user experience X is for unregistered users should be reason enough to ban links to X.
The experience for unregistered users on Reddit is almost as bad as twitter, I don’t think Reddit cares about that.
Yeah, especially on mobile where they keep bugging people to install their app even if you’ve logged in. Sometimes they even block you from viewing certain communities on mobile if you’re not using their app but if you’ve desktop site enabled from browser settings.
Have had twitter blocked in my dns server for ages. All the big social media companies. Totally worth it.
So that’s what it takes before people think of leaving twitter.
They have concepts of leaving, but addiction is a bitch. Most will stay.
Maybe they will leave oligarch owned social media next.
I mean I doubt it. After all, the next-best thing is Lemmy.
Are any Lemmy instances banning x links? I haven’t heard of it, but would be in favor of it.
We’re currently conducting a vote on dbzer0 for it via a pinned post.
Last I checked the count was overwhelmingly for banning links to X.
LMAO well said. It sucks that we really don’t have a decent alternative to reddit. I miss my niche subs.
Digg should have never released V4. It was reddit’s only competition, but now it’s a soulless, corporate curated media platform. You can’t even comment anymore.
Just ban it!
I don’t like the guy either way, but I still can’t believe this is actually real. Are there any videos that show unequivocally that this is a salute and not just a meme made out of a poorly timed photo? All I’ve seen so far are just still shots, which leads me to suspect there’s a spin on this.
Edit: I should also add I avoid X as much as possible anyway.
Holy shit
That’s just laziness on your part. It’s VERY easy to find video clips of the two times he did it.
Reddit’s response to this will reveal where Reddit likely falls on the Spectrum of Evil. They’re a privately-held company, so any possible protection money they may have paid to the Nazis won’t be visible like Meta’s and such until the FEC report is (likely never) released in 3 months.
Can’t say for sure, but knowing spez, Reddit Inc willl be bleep Trump’s bleep harder than a Philippine bleep on a black Friday sale…
50 bucks say that within 6 months Reddit will have a policy that prohibits reddit subs from blocking twatter links.
I would not take that bet lol, i guarantee they are tweaking over this and scared about how this effects shareholders, they should be more worried about all the sus nsfw stuff right next to ads for “wholesome” companies
Didn’t they recently go public? They’re traded as RDDT on the New York Stock Exchange.
Yes, they went public last year. And despite all the gloating on lemmy about a drop in share price right after the ipo, it’s up 500% since then.
I can’t believe it’s taken this long. I get disappointed when microblogmeme jpegs don’t have 2 @ symbols in them.
Ban links to reddit please. Fucking cesspool. Ban the self-righteous know-it-all users too.
And they’ll eventually not do it considering they are still debating about it. Just do it.
Some have already banned, some are in the process of voting.
I wish I could stop using WhatsApp but that’s where all the people without phone plans are. I wish I could stop using Telegram but that’s where all the drug dealers are. I wish Reddit would ban X links, but that’s where all the sassy hot takes are.
You can of course, you’re just chosing to support zuck, musk and durov because it’s slightly inconvenient for you not to
Of those three, telegram isn’t as bad though. They’re insecure and share data with law enforcement etc, but they’re not as active and enthusiastic collaborators with Trump
insecure and share data with law enforcement
[citation needed]
If Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you’re a suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate the Telegram Terms of Service, we will perform a legal analysis of the request and may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities.
Doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. And more importantly doesn’t seem insecure to me.
My point is the network effect. That’s where people are and I have no power to change that, so that is where I must sometimes be. If it was up to me, things would be wonderful and open source. But I sometimes have to deal with — ugh… humans.
It is up to you though. I get that you can make the choice that supporting zuck and musk is an OK price to pay to not have to do a little more work or be the annoying person saying “I only have Signal” but it is very much your choice. You could choose differently, if your priorities were different
India alone is about 2 billion people who all use WhatsApp. I cannot change the world. I hear you and would love for us all to switch to federated or — at least — decentralized things, or whatever. I will advocate for it, but like banks and shit are using WhatsApp. It is legitimized here even more than MMS. I can’t stop it. And yes, I have made the choice to communicate with humans rather than using Signal.
I did that for a while. The thing that happened was that I got left out of stuff, because people didn’t always think of informing me separately, when it was already discussed in the already existing groups. Sometimes they would inform me after all the planning was done what the plans were, sometimes I got a last minute info or no info at all. So the choice was between a significant loss in my social life and using the same service as everyone else in my social circles.
Paywalled link
Are there other sites to which links are banned? I don’t really like that policy for anything no matter how nefarious. Unless it’s malware or a liability and going to land the visitor in prison.
Porn sites without strict CSAM, malicious injection or spam protection, many individual subs ban extreme right-wing sites, Fox News or opposite left-etc
Links to Russian websites and telegram are banned on most of not all subreddits.
