More than 50 Reddit communities ban X links to protest Musk (www.nbcnews.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 01:46
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thejml@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 2025 02:12 next collapse

Those are rookie numbers!

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 23 Jan 2025 02:18 next collapse

They are still on reddit

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:06 collapse

To befair the only lemmy community I’ve seen thats blocked X is /c/Playstation.

So reddit still has 49 more than we do.

then_three_more@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:29 next collapse

I think vegan did. Not sure if thats on .world though

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 23 Jan 2025 06:16 collapse

lemmy.world/post/24565936
or !vegan@lemmy.world

Edit: I am still confused about linking, sorry.

criss_cross@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 15:37 collapse

In fairness I don’t see a lot of Twitter links in general here with or without a ban. Most people use xcancel when they have to and have no other option.

IMO a ban here would be more symbolic than effective.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 02:22 next collapse

Kinda wild to me it took this long but I’m not going to be mad about doing the right thing.

penquin@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 2025 02:25 next collapse

He’s going to buy reddit now. Lmao.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:35 next collapse

That would be good for Lemmy.

IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:38 collapse

Can’t musk simply state that naziism is wrong and hitler was a very bad guy?

That’s right of coarse he can!

HHHMMM!

parody@lemmings.world on 23 Jan 2025 07:03 collapse

Why?!

Le epic 14 y/o troll mAStEr mOvE was doing the worst nonverbal political thing one can do and getting away with it without apologizing.

The centrists accept it might have been inadvertent. He’d never have the lefties anyway and the far right will, of course, absolutely love it. It’s the kind of thing a kid in shoes of power might dream up and run by the team and all have fits of laughter: “they can’t prove anything if you don’t say anything!”

/fiction /conspiracytheory

Nice way to commemorate the Jan 6ers’ prison release. And great distraction, as it must be.

IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 12:11 collapse

No I mean if you disagree with what nazis did, you will never have a problem saying exactly that. Whether it’s to clear up a misunderstanding or for any other reason. Rejecting nazis has nothing to do with being edgy or being right or wrong in a debate. It’s a simple idea that can be said at anytime.

Majorllama@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 02:25 next collapse

Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 23 Jan 2025 08:20 next collapse

And block all their domains/IP ranges too. People really need to understand how third party tracking works.

rumba@lemmy.zip on 23 Jan 2025 11:49 collapse

Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

Ste41th@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 02:58 next collapse

Fuck Reddit and X

otp@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 14:09 collapse

tbf it’s the users of Reddit and they’re doing the right thing

Brewchin@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:01 next collapse

Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness… 🍿

Erasmus@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:25 next collapse

And start banning mods who don’t support Musk and Nazism, wholeheartedly.

AtariDump@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:38 next collapse

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:00 next collapse

THATS what spez looks like??? I was expecting some corporate looking lawyer type face. This is more like that incel who repulsed girls in high school, and is now in his 40s…but still very much the same person.

Such a punchable face.

[deleted] on 23 Jan 2025 05:45 next collapse

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PetteriPano@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:46 next collapse

This is more like that incel who repulsed girls in high school, and is now in his 40s

Don’t forget that he used to be a moderator of r/jailbait

datavoid@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 07:36 collapse

TIL… what a fucking douche

Cheems@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 17:56 next collapse

He looks like a greedy little pig boy

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jan 2025 13:30 next collapse

Dude, read about the guy. He is such a massive fucking chode.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 13:46 collapse
gwilikers@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 05:14 next collapse

Please don’t insult pigs by comparing them to that cunt.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 05:19 collapse

He’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at you it doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white.

atomicorange@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 07:04 next collapse

He looks like Zuckerberg fucked Ellen DeGeneres.

downhomechunk@midwest.social on 23 Jan 2025 13:07 collapse

This is what my eyes will see from this day forward.

[deleted] on 24 Jan 2025 13:10 collapse

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nomy@lemmy.zip on 24 Jan 2025 15:48 collapse

They were quoting Jaws.

I’m sure there’s other stuff for you to be offended about though.

nekbardrun@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:46 collapse

Sorry, I wasn’t aware it was a reference to jaws.

I’ll retract my previous comment then.

Thanks for pointing it out :)

Bassman1805@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 06:08 collapse

Even wearing super cyclical goggles, it doesn’t make sense for reddit to intervene here. Twitter is a competitor, why would they want to encourage people to link to a competitor?

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2025 12:20 next collapse

legacy social media

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 13:19 next collapse

cyclical goggles

The goggles, they keep spinning!

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 13:48 next collapse

If they have a data sharing agreement, I can think of a few rea$on$.

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network on 07 Feb 2025 13:17 collapse

Not a competitor, fascism. And because the US government passed them a few million to do so.

PunnyName@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:16 next collapse

reddit.com/…/due_to_recent_events_we_will_continu…

Beware of this festering pile of excrement that is the conservative subreddit. Ready your sanity and eye bleach before venturing in

skeezix@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:05 collapse

Holy shit. I made the mistake of looking in there. What a festering pile of misinformed louts. There’s not a brain cell to be found in there.

pivot_root@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:19 next collapse

Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

Kettle meet pot?

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:05 collapse

Uhhhhhhhhh, gotta say, I’ve never once heard NPR tell me that we’re special or privilaged, or above the law. Or even should be.

Meanwhile our current president is a 34x convicted criminal and sexual predator.

…although to be fair, the democrats also had a sexual predator in the 60s (twice), and the 90s.

But I can’t recall any democrat running on the platform of “we’re better than them”.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 12:43 collapse

Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me would poke fun at their audience for being the type to sniff their own farts. I haven’t listened in a while, but I assume they still do.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 23 Jan 2025 06:10 collapse

You have just seen an Eldritch Abomination (-10 Sanity)

thisguy1092@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:17 next collapse

Who cares

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:21 collapse

I get it, why give him any attention. But this is not about him–it’s about the protest this time. That’s fine by me, let’s get people going!

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:19 next collapse

Good idea. We should do this here.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 05:03 next collapse

Assume a single instance should be able to do this no? If so, kind of sad that I don’t think any have that I am aware of.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:07 collapse

/c/Playstation has, and lemmy.world has asked users if they should as a sticky.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 05:23 collapse

Would much prefer users and instance admins to have better filtering tools.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 23 Jan 2025 03:25 next collapse

Reddit users are about to get reminded that its not their platform to make rules

multiplewolves@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 06:38 next collapse

That was my guess as well, but so far, as reported to Ars Technica, they don’t intend to intervene

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 13:55 next collapse

Wait until some Trump loyalist brownshirt calls pigboy.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 15:12 collapse

I give them a week before they change their minds

danc4498@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 11:54 next collapse

Why would the owners of Reddit care about twitter?

OccamsRazer@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:19 collapse

It’s either the power mods or the admins who decide how content gets censored on reddit. Which one is worse?

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:29 next collapse

Fucking preformative liberals, instead of attacking the systems of exploitation that harm the community they virtue signal for they focus on the temporarily manufactured villains.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:37 next collapse

If you can’t have everything, you’d prefer nothing? Isn’t that the same logic that got us a second trump term?

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:40 next collapse

No the logic that got us a second trump term is “we can move as far to the right as we want, and as long as we’re second worst, people will have no choice but to vote for us.”

candy_colors@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:43 next collapse

I mean, both of u are right

seven_phone@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:47 collapse

No again, what got Trump elected was a complacency that the population was at heart clear thinking and aware of the exploits of the world.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:10 next collapse

Incrementalists learn like they do anything else: they fucking don’t.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:44 collapse

Democrat complacency in their politicians gave us trump, as much as Hillary Clinton did.

ubergeek@lemmy.today on 23 Jan 2025 11:33 collapse

What got us a second Trump term was the Dems acting like they are owed votes, instead of acting like they need to earn votes.

JamesFire@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:30 collapse

So… what?

In your ideal world nazi sites wouldn’t be blocked?

What are you even arguing here?

There is no world in which refusing to use a site run by a nazi is a bad thing.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:46 collapse

I’m arguing liberals have the memory of a goldfish and will forget it the next time something else comes up. This is #resist 2.0, purely performative.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 23 Jan 2025 06:14 next collapse

Still better than nothing. I don’t see how complaining about a good thing gets us anywhere. And also it screams bad mental health. You ok, bro?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 10:33 collapse

Got it, there’s no point in ever fighting them since we might not fight them at some unspecified point in the future, we should just all welcome and embrace Nazis. Thanks for letting us know how to move forward.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 10:38 collapse

They are not fighting anything, if they were they would have fought it from the beginning instead of accepting small doses of fascism.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 10:40 collapse

Got it, everyone just give up and walk willingly into the camps. Thanks for letting us know how to move forward.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 12:09 collapse

We are currently living in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World where even the mention of breaking free from the chains is met with resistance. Liberals would rather dose their Soma than allow meaningful change to happen.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 13:10 collapse

Yes, we already established that you think everyone should give up and walk willingly into the camps. Where do we meet you?

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 14:48 collapse

No one said give up anything, liberals are fighting the wrong things. They fight manufactured villains instead of the system that created them. They are repeating 2016 all over

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 14:56 collapse

You literally said this:

I’m arguing liberals have the memory of a goldfish and will forget it the next time something else comes up. This is #resist 2.0, purely performative.

Sure as hell sounds like give up and stop fighting to me. If not, what would you suggest people do other than berate random strangers on the internet? Because I can tell that’s something you’re way into, but I do not see what it helps anything other than boosting your own ego.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:29 collapse

Because it is performative, they are incapable of connecting the dots on multiple issues because they never stay connected long enough to get the larger picture. They focus on small issues like this and ignore the core of this problems, either willingly or ignorantly.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:31 collapse

Again: what would you suggest people do other than berate random strangers on the internet?

It’s okay, I know you won’t actually answer. People like you never do.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:46 collapse

You confuse berating with telling someone where they went wrong and how to fix it.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:49 collapse

Thanks for proving my point.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:57 collapse

You dont have a point because you feel that what you are doing is correct method. That arrogant hubris is why we now have open Nazis in power

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:01 collapse

You are right. Asking the person who says that they are not suggesting people give up what they should do instead of giving up is what I feel is the correct method.

But feel free at any time to say what people should do if not either give up or berate people on the internet.

I know you won’t because it’s clear you have no idea.

Yuper@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 03:41 next collapse

What’s “X”? Is that p0rn or something?

chaosCruiser@futurology.today on 23 Jan 2025 04:28 next collapse

Imagine you had a relationship that turned out toxic, and then you decided to protect yourself by severing it. Later, when you even hear about X, your heart is filled with negative emotions, and you realize you need to move on.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:01 next collapse

Well it is run by a jerkoff.

stardust@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2025 06:05 collapse

Work in progress swastika.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jan 2025 03:45 next collapse

Wow, “super effective” now the big boss of neo-fascism is in trouble with this. We will now beat them. Next week no one will talk about it anymore

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 05:11 collapse

So, your stratagy is nukes or go home? You just want one decisive move to win, otherwise why bother?

When a baby is born it doesn’t just run out of the womb and poop in a toilet. First it slides out. Many months later it starts crawling. Then slowly walking. Then walking. Then running. Then potty training. THEN it can run to a toilet to poop.

But by your logic, oh well, can’t run to a toilet on day 1. Best just not to be born.

magnetosphere@fedia.io on 23 Jan 2025 03:54 next collapse

I wonder how long their corporate overlords will allow this to continue.

Aeri@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 04:31 next collapse

Oh that’ll fucking show em

[deleted] on 23 Jan 2025 04:51 next collapse

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Nythos@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 07:34 collapse

Some Lemmy communities already have.

I’ve seen that the Playstation and Nintendo communities have both banned it recently.

stardust@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2025 06:02 next collapse

Twitter probably benefits from people being redirected to their site from repostings with how it has become the go to source for news like sports, so it might. Won’t hurt Elon financially but less people being exposed to the content there that Elon wants to push that don’t actively use Twitter is a good thing even if it is only a few.

Even small moves is a good thing with how over the years sports and game submissions have become increasingly more Twitter submissions.

Rolder@reddthat.com on 23 Jan 2025 08:26 collapse

Twitters value has already been going down the shitter thanks to shit leadership, this is just another nail.

kazerniel@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 14:23 collapse

The less its posts are shared, the less its relevance is to the world. I can’t see that as a bad thing. It always baffled me how outsize Twitter’s influence was on world events/news while having 1/5th the active userbase of Facebook.

[deleted] on 23 Jan 2025 05:13 next collapse

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absquatulate@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 06:29 next collapse

Wow, leave it to redditors to make change without actually making change. A few of those subs had open discussions on instituting a ban and they discovered x links were in the dozens per year. Musk is definitely gonna feel that. What they should have done is ban all twitter images as well, those fuckers make up 3/4 of posts on /r/popular. Or ban/restrict musk news, because it feels like the remainng 1/4 posts are “news” that cover musk, including dozens of discussions on whether the nazi cheated in fucking videogames or not ( same as here come to think of it ). But no, they’re addicted to those and unable to make meaningful changes, so they’re left with these halfcocked “bans”.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 06:30 next collapse

Aaaand here come the admins to relentlessly bully any mods involved in this into submission. Because the reddit admins are pathetic, greedy little pig boys who don’t give a flying shit about their users or moderators.

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 07:18 next collapse

Remember last time Redditor’s protested only to cave so they could keep being mods? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

CluckN@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 10:11 next collapse

Yeah let’s see if they keep this up. In a few weeks they’ll cave in and say, “Well we want to keep people informed”.

Spezi@feddit.org on 23 Jan 2025 10:51 next collapse

I was the founder of r/TIHI in a past life and u/spez removed all of us moderators because we weren‘t opening the sub as part of our protest.

I them requested them to take down the subs title picture and logo which I created and they didn‘t even bother.

conditional_soup@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 2025 15:18 next collapse

Thank you for your service

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 19:17 next collapse

A redditor of quality, you have my respect.

Pyro@programming.dev on 25 Jan 2025 03:02 next collapse

Better to have you here mate.

Irelephant@lemm.ee on 13 Feb 2025 12:50 collapse

No wonder the subreddit’s gone to shit.

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 13:18 next collapse

Does Reddit have some sort of contract with X with regards to sharing of content? I know they have one with OpenAI.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:02 next collapse

This is a bit different from before. They aren’t privating the subs this time, they’re just doing their unpaid full time job by disallowing posts with untrusted sources.

psoul@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 2025 18:53 collapse

I remember and that’s why I’m here reading your comment 🫡

magic_lobster_party@fedia.io on 23 Jan 2025 07:37 next collapse

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them.

That projection.

My first reaction when seeing the salute was ” oh come on, it can’t be that bad… oh it’s way worse than I thought”

stardust@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2025 11:36 next collapse

I laughed when he did it twice as if just to emphasize the first one wasn’t a mistake.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jan 2025 16:49 collapse

Supports far right movement in Germany, says they are the only way to fix Germany.

Agrees with Jewish people being anti white- ““Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

The billionaire owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter, responded the same evening: “You have said the actual truth.””

Does NAZI salutes on a national platform.

People in denial: “I’m sure it was a mistake”

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 13:50 collapse

I don’t think it was a mistake, I think it was more, “lol, let’s see what the media says about that!!” They made a spectacle of him jumping on stage at the campaign trail, so I truly think he did that to troll a bit.

He’s a real life Bruce Wayne, but without the Batman bit.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 12:01 next collapse

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them.

That projection.

As they mindlessly repeat whatever they just saw linked on “onlyrealpatriots.info.biz” from Facebook.

Shardikprime@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:07 collapse

I mean if you only saw and read Reddit during the last election campaign, you’d be ABSOLUTELY sure at the first half of the campaign that Biden was going to win, might as well don’t have an election at that point

And then, after Kamala got into the campaign, again, if you only saw and read Reddit, you’d be, again, ABSOLUTELY sure that she would win, it wasn’t even a contest.

If reality were downvotes, upvotes or massive bans to users posting against the thread zeitgeist, yeah sure, that would be what happened.

Hard to accept reality after that harsh wakeup call

b3an@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 07:38 next collapse

If this is what it took they were just lazy before. This has been CLEARLY where he is pushing things for a long time now. Twitter is in the Xhitter.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 08:10 next collapse

To be fair, Reddit bans everyone for everything now

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 08:13 next collapse

Yeah, fuck Reddit. They are part of the problem.

WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 08:30 next collapse

why do they still show these kind of pictures of him. for me there is only one picture of him to show from now on

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 Jan 2025 08:35 next collapse

Oh yes for the totally unproblematic picture taken at the inauguration, and since it’s so unproblematic he can’t possibly have an issue with it being posted.

Although a solid second favorite is him in a punk leather jacket. Mostly because he hates it.

downhomechunk@midwest.social on 23 Jan 2025 13:05 next collapse

I would also accept the picture of him leaping 2" off the ground with both arms up and his belly showing.

sness@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 15:29 collapse

I still enjoy the edgy liberty pic and the balding one.

futatorius@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 2025 08:57 next collapse

Most of the X links on Reddit just point to non-X content anyway, and are used by Reddit posters to circumvent subreddit policies on excluding dodgy sources. In other words they were using X as a shitty URL shortener.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 13:15 next collapse

Don’t do it as a “protest.” Do it as the new norm. Xitter has no worth and should be relegated to the porta-potty of time.

ATDA@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 14:09 next collapse

Meta, Twitter, now tiktok. BLATANTLY obvious coordination to propagandize social media.

Fuck then all, damn then to hell, scourge of modern society.

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 15:07 collapse

I used to spend time on Facebook catching up with friends and family. That was way back in like 2010. I can’t stand that platform now. It’s all AI trash and random reels. I don’t even know why I’m getting some of these reels but I suspect they are sharing data with other platforms like YT. I miss the internet of the 2000s…

ATDA@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 16:13 collapse

They all share data or buy it. Talk about some random shit near your phone they know. I do it for giggles now. Not sure what works as a trigger it but I’ve made my own advertising for workout equipment, dj tables, etc without searching any of it.

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 17:37 collapse

Oh yeah. I get that too. I’m sitting here talking about the most random shit with my cousins and bam! Facebook got an ad for that.

Shardikprime@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 14:15 next collapse

And so begins the stun lock. Genius move actually with adversaries so predictable

conditional_soup@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 2025 15:17 next collapse

In before reddit forces those subs to allow links to twitter.

airportline@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 15:17 next collapse

Lemmy instances should follow suit.

thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 16:26 next collapse

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 16:40 collapse

Dbzer0 took a vote and will block it from their instance I believe

airportline@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 16:45 collapse

I just added it as a rule for the communities I moderate. I also set my Bluesky feeds to filter out X links.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 13:44 next collapse

Disagree, but I also almost never follow them anyway. I pretty much only follow a link if I think it’s to a first party article or something.

Pixlbabble@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:10 next collapse

De-centralized as long as you go with what I say…

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:47 next collapse

I’m not sure you understand what decentralized means.

airportline@lemmy.ml on 24 Jan 2025 18:51 next collapse

You’re perfectly free to go on Lemmy instances that don’t have that as a rule.

davel@lemmy.ml on 24 Jan 2025 23:23 next collapse

How can you have been on Lemmy longer than me yet have such a fundamental misunderstanding of centralized/non-federated vs decentralized/federated?

Pixlbabble@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 23:51 collapse

Here we go. If let’s just say all the instances came together and did the same ban because some hivemind mentality had taken over. It would metaphorically be centralized again. The chances of that happening-probably zero.

goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Jan 2025 01:14 collapse

I’ve thought that since they started locking almost everything behind a login

bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jan 2025 13:04 next collapse

A more fractured internet is coming. Posting sources will be forbidden. Discourse will become more polarized, disconnected, and extreme.

Most of these Reddit bans on Twitter are also half assed. They still allow screenshots of Twitter posts. That means the content is still spread, and Twitter remains relevant.

Lots of these subreddits don’t even get a lot of Twitter links in the first place. Like for lotrmemes it makes zero difference.

That said, Musk and Twitter suck. I have deleted my Twitter account three years ago.

However there still is some information, where Twitter is a good source.

menemen@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 14:58 next collapse

If we like it or not, twitter is still the most important social network for journalisst and thinktankers.

shortrounddev@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 14:59 next collapse

Twitter has always been the red headed step child of social media. It had outsized cultural importance because most people consumed it via screenshot, not actually browsing the site. The reach of an individual twitter user is greatly augmented by their reach on other social platforms via screenshot

Saltycracker@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:28 next collapse

Your right it is where all the journalists post and Substack is a second. Which I can see Reddit banning. Probably not the best to get news from Reddit anymore.

11111one11111@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2025 01:31 collapse

And sports. Sports alone is enough to drive Twitter.

Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:56 next collapse

I feels like bizarro world if you fall somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum or don’t really care about politics. Seems their are only two extremes and you have to drink the cool-aid of whatever site you’re on or be suppressed. Whether you agree or disagree the push to ban twitter/x from all the sports subs was definitely a coordinated operation. Very troubling to me to see this kind of mass manipulation going on… these sports subs should have nothing to do with politics but maybe I’m the delusional one. I don’t know.

jim3692@discuss.online on 24 Jan 2025 16:14 collapse

That’s how protests work. Just because you are not affected, does not mean you should not participate. Any subreddit participating is probably trying to show they are anti-nazi, and/or they support the efforts of the others in the platform.

Of course it causes trouble for users, but sadly that’s what Twitter has become and it deserves this hate. None of this would have happened if Elon truly advocated for freedom of speech, instead of using his power to push his right-wing beliefs.

I am proud that there are still some mods in Reddit that take the risk of protesting. I was afraid they got removed on the previous Reddit protest, about pricing changes.

Adding to that, not caring about politics probably means going with the flow and not reacting. Which, in today’s capitalist world, usually means supporting big corporations by using their services, just because everyone else use them.

Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:31 collapse

If you are implying that the ignorant or unwilling should be forced participants in a protest, I would strongly disagree with that statement. I also am seeing a lot of rhetoric that not participating or simply not agreeing with a ban implies you are either a supporter of musk or Nazism… This sort of line in the sand statements are counterproductive, inflammatory, divisive and frankly ignorant.

There is no risk on reddit with such a protest considering the political lean. I don’t use twitter because I personally I hate the way conversations and ‘information’ is structured as well as the content. I don’t also don’t have an issue with subs/admins or even the whole platform banning twitter. What I do have are serious concerns about the mechanisms behind the ban and the further echo chambering of the site. To me, it’s better to have non quality info/sources available and downvote it than to just ban it.

kava@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:12 next collapse

However there still is some information, where Twitter is a good source.

I agree. There are some great OSINT posters that share all sorts of information you won’t find anywhere else. For example when Israel struck back at Iran after the initial wave of missiles and drones- it was a guy on twitter who geolocated and found the satellite images of what they hit.

And that information directly contradicted the Israeli official narrative. You won’t find it on NY Times. You won’t find it on Washington Post. Hell, you’d have a hard time finding it here or on reddit. That’s just one example, there’s a wealth of live data about Russia v Ukraine as well. One thing I’ve really learned the last 3 years since 2022 is that the mainstream media will completely lie to you. It isn’t just bias, it’s outright lying. So people online who are dedicated to the truth and provide receipts, I find, is a breath of fresh air. It allows humans without privileged information to go online and actually see with their own eyes what is happening on the ground. It’s something that frankly hasn’t been the case for any time in human history. Although I think it’s going to be a short window of time that will be true.

I think Twitter has progressively been becoming more censored. For now, most people are more or less ignored if you aren’t talking about the hot topics- but I think very soon anything against official US narrative will be banned. Same thing with Facebook, Tiktok, etc.

We’re seeing the social media sites align themselves with the US government in preparation for the next global war. The first thing to go in war is the truth. Soon there will be a giant firewall and we won’t be able to see content from overseas. Initially people will be able to use VPNs and other methods and then eventually that will be met with criminal charges.

bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jan 2025 02:18 collapse

mainstream media will completely lie to you

Mainstream media doesn’t care to research thoroughly and rarely have journalists who actually understand the topic they’re reporting on. It’s not lies, just superficial sloppy work mostly.

Journalists rarely dig through OSINT themselves. They will ask an Possibly biased expert who actually reads and is able to interpret OSINT. Then the journalist will only understand half and misunderstand another part. The cite some quotes from the expert that then make for an article with a clickbaity headline. Only if you‘re very lucky the journalist will review the OST themselves or even show the source directly in their reporting. It’s surprisingly rare that journalists speak the language of the country they’re reporting about.

Not all is great with OSINT, as it’s full of selection bias, rumors, unconfirmed information, and people with agendas.

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 24 Jan 2025 16:45 next collapse

Lots of these subreddits don’t even get a lot of Twitter links in the first place. Like for lotrmemes it makes zero difference.

That’s not true. Gondor uses Twitter instead of beacons to call for aid now.

Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:05 next collapse

I did see a sub called fullmoviesonyoutube or something where a mod soloed the ban. Pretty amusing to read the user comments in that one

patacon_pisao@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2025 01:43 collapse

Most of these Reddit bans on Twitter are also half assed. They still allow screenshots of Twitter posts. That means the content is still spread, and Twitter remains relevant.

I wholeheartedly agree. I personally got fed up trying to make a new account recently where I got shadowbanned, where there’s accounts that steal posts from the past and repost them as new just to farm karma and they stay up despite bots detecting them as spam/reposts.

My point is if they’re looking to enforce something they should not do it in a half-assed way.

Shardikprime@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 15:30 next collapse

Here on Lemmy, people who claim to advocate for freedom of speech and information, demanding for information shared on social networks to be controlled, shutdown and people to be censored based on unknown and ambiguous criteria, without even understanding the implications of it.

Details at six

probably2high@lemm.ee on 24 Jan 2025 15:53 next collapse

What does freedom of speech have to do with independent subreddits deciding they don’t want to serve content from a private company they don’t agree with?

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jan 2025 16:08 next collapse

That’s easy, freedom of speech means you can say what I want but not what you want, and it applies everywhere including in my dreams. So if you say something I don’t like in my dreams I can criminally charge you and take you to hell in a cell.

Edit: Thought this would be obvious satire, but here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Freefall@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2025 00:55 collapse

It’s easy if they have no idea what “freedom of speech” actually means and what it actually allows. The phrase at face value is nothing like the constitutionally protected action. They are too ignorant to know that.

Pixlbabble@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:05 next collapse

100, I get more dislikes here than I ever did on Reddit.

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jan 2025 16:09 collapse

Downvotes are not a form of censorship.

Also, that sounds like a you problem, not an “us” problem.

Pixlbabble@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:13 collapse

I know downvotes aren’t censorship. Not really, I saw the change happen in real time. I was on Twitter before it was run by Feds.

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:51 collapse

Weird tangent, but ok

kava@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:05 next collapse

Look, I’m all for freedom of speech. I’m nearly as close to an absolutist as they come.

This is an example of a protest. Nobody is restricting anybody’s speech. They aren’t banning Musk-supporters. They aren’t censoring Trumpers. They are specifically banning links to a website owned by a billionaire who did a Nazi salute at an event where hundreds of millions if not billions of people would witness him.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net on 24 Jan 2025 16:08 next collapse

He’s a nazi. There’s no space it civil society for nazis.

Saryn@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 16:32 next collapse

Not to worry, you’re simply confusing freedom of speech with obliging private actors to consume content they don’t want to consume or disagree with. The first is a fundemental principle of democratic legal systems and recognized as a perempotry norm under international law. The second is authoritarianism.

There’s a growing number of legally illiterate people who think freedom of speech is absolute and even affords one the right to oblige others consume their speech through the government. That is fundamentally wrong and a complete misunderstanding of how these key principles of freedom work and have always worked in modern democratic systems.

Newsflash - freedom of speech is not absolute. Never has been. There are very specific, explicitly codified limitations. Why? Because words are the most powerful weapons and can be used to target and threaten the freedoms of other people, including their freedom to life. Which is why rights and obligations are always balanced against each other, following the principle of proportionality.

If you feel so strongly about not being able force others to consume content they don’t want to consume, then I have bad news for you - you are opposing democracy. But it seems like you, and many other like you, are just confused, rather than actively promoting anti-democratic standpoints. The truly sad part? The impact is the same regardless of intent.

Edit: Want to know more? Details at 6.

Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:59 collapse

It’s so typical to see 90% good argument and 10% insult the OP & half the country. If believers stuck to the 90% good argument and left out the insults you’d win a lot of followers.

Saryn@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 18:28 next collapse

I don’t want any followers or believers. Calling it as I see it. That is all.

Freefall@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2025 01:01 collapse

The sky is blue and I think OP is a moron. The second part doesn’t make the first untrue, it also doesn’t make it an ad hominem argument.

Half the voters(not country) are a bunch of gullible clowns and calling them out is just an observation.

stardust@lemmy.ca on 24 Jan 2025 17:58 next collapse

Existence of mods goes against the concept of freedom of speech. People aren’t prevented from directly using Twitter themselves. They’d be on 4chan if they wanted something as close to an unfiltered internet.

We wouldn’t be on our respective instances that have blocked off entire instances and communities if we wanted to consume unfiltered internet content.

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2025 02:05 collapse

Wat

arararagi@ani.social on 24 Jan 2025 17:18 collapse

I saw it from the monster hunter community, now you can’t post the source of a fanart lol.

_stranger_@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 17:31 next collapse

Might get more artists to move to Bluesky at least

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jan 2025 17:39 collapse

You can always leave their @handle if you want to credit them. Most artists also have other channels. If they only have X… Well sucks to be them but it’s thteir choice.