It’s not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
I think it’s way worse to keep information from someone who wants to see it, than to let it be seen by someone who would prefer not to see it but isn’t motivated enough to do something about it. Sort of by construction, actually - if the latter category really didn’t want to see Twitter links, they would have done it themselves.
It’s not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
Didn’t nitter shut down like 2 years ago or something
Was it as long ago as that? xcancel.com still works, if you can’t live without your fix of Baalbuddy.
I stopped using twitter way longer than that, tbh I’m basically gone from most social media
Twitter used to be more interesting and I talked with a lot of people. Nowadays it’s pretty devoid
It very nearly did, but there’s, like, 2 working instances with heavy ratelimits.
Or those who don’t want to see it but aren’t technical or motivated enough to fix it themselves
I think it’s way worse to keep information from someone who wants to see it, than to let it be seen by someone who would prefer not to see it but isn’t motivated enough to do something about it. Sort of by construction, actually - if the latter category really didn’t want to see Twitter links, they would have done it themselves.
I think keeping fascist content away from unsuspecting people is good, actually
…we’re talking about a ban of links to Twitter on a gaming subreddit. Those links would be to, like, game news. That’s not “fascist content”.
Fair, but the website still promotes it and requires you to log in to see the link contents, thus exposing you to the other content.