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 01:46
https://lemmy.world/post/24608866

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thejml@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 02:12 next collapse

Those are rookie numbers!

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

They are still on reddit

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

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

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 23 Jan 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 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 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 02:25 next collapse

He’s going to buy reddit now. Lmao.

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

That would be good for Lemmy.

IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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.

Majorllama@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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 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 02:58 next collapse

Fuck Reddit and X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 05:45 next collapse

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PetteriPano@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 07:36 collapse

TIL… what a fucking douche

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

He looks like a greedy little pig boy

gwilikers@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 05:14 next collapse

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

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 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 07:04 collapse

He looks like Zuckerberg fucked Ellen DeGeneres.

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

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

Bassman1805@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 12:20 next collapse

legacy social media

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

cyclical goggles

The goggles, they keep spinning!

PunnyName@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 06:10 collapse

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

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

Who cares

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

Good idea. We should do this here.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 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 05:07 collapse

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

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

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

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 23 Jan 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 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 13:55 next collapse

Wait until some Trump loyalist brownshirt calls pigboy.

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

I give them a week before they change their minds

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

Why would the owners of Reddit care about twitter?

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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 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 03:43 next collapse

I mean, both of u are right

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

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

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

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

ubergeek@lemmy.today on 23 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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?

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

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

chaosCruiser@futurology.today on 23 Jan 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 05:01 next collapse

Well it is run by a jerkoff.

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

Work in progress swastika.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jan 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 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 03:54 next collapse

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

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

Oh that’ll fucking show em

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 04:51 next collapse

actually it will.

weaning reliance off of a Nazi owned platform is the early signs of a dying product.

Lemmy should do the same IMO.

Nythos@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 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 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 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 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 05:13 next collapse

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absquatulate@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 15:18 next collapse

Thank you for your service

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

A redditor of quality, you have my respect.

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

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

magic_lobster_party@fedia.io on 23 Jan 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 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 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”

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 12:01 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.

b3an@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 08:10 next collapse

To be fair, Reddit bans everyone for everything now

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

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

WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 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 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 13:05 collapse

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

futatorius@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 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 14:15 next collapse

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

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

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

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

Lemmy instances should follow suit.

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

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet

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

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

airportline@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 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.