• @ilinamorato
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    formerly* is the word you’re thinking of.

    This is great news. But I have absolutely no faith that Spez won’t revert such a change, given his well-publicized love for M*sk.

    • palordrolap
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      Frankly, I’m surprised that there are mods who dare to show any sort of defiance at all. I thought all the defiant ones left or decided they were OK with ring-kissing deference to Spez.

      Have some of them grown backbones in the meantime?

      • @ilinamorato
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        1420 hours ago

        Well, it’s not direct opposition to Spez yet. Just sort of…second-order uprising.

    • HobbitFoot
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      720 hours ago

      I don’t see why Spez wouldn’t like it. His mods are banning linking to a different social media website and he can claim plausible deniability.

      • @ilinamorato
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        Because he thinks Elon is the smartest smart boy ever. The whole reason Lemmy got its big boost a couple years ago is that Elon banned third party apps and Spez thought that sounded like a good idea.

        • HobbitFoot
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          That’s different. Spez banned third party apps because he thought there was significant revenue loss from having users use third party apps. What money is he losing if his subs don’t link to X?

          • @ilinamorato
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            He specifically cited Elon and Twitter as reasoning when shutting down the API. So now, if Elon calls up Spez and says he wants the links unbanned, I betcha Spez dances to Elon’s tune.

            I recognize that it’s not a financial loss for him now. But it’s also not really enough of a gain for him to care; all the social media CEOs are co-cronies together, so he’ll probably do it.

            • HobbitFoot
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              14 hours ago

              He cited how another company works as defense for his decision in his company.

              And social media companies don’t meet together in secret meetings to strategize how they’ll collude with each other. A lot of times, they are making independent strategic decisions that happen to align.

              • @ilinamorato
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                He cited how another company works as defense for his decision in his company.

                Ok. Honestly at this point the length of this conversation is way out of proportion with my interest in it.

                And social media companies don’t meet together in secret meetings to strategize how they’ll collude with each other.

                I honestly don’t know how someone could be paying attention to the business world in 2024 and believe this earnestly.

                A lot of times, they are making independent strategic decisions that happen to align.

                Just “happen to.” Total coincidence.

  • @Sgt_choke_n_stroke
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    They should be the same with lemmy. I just filtered everything from Twitter

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      I can’t think of a single Twitter post I’ve seen on here. Just seems like begging for increased censorship for the sake of it. Let’s not encourage powermods behavior.

    • @Stovetop
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      A few have. I saw a post from the Playstation community on .world and one from somewhere else I can’t recall, glad these communities are taking a stand (not that I see many Twitter links on this site in the first place).