• @[email protected]
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    584 hours ago

    “Reddit continues to be anti-free speech,” Cedric Hohnstadt said on X. “I just got a lifetime ban from the ‘comics’ subreddit. Yesterday, I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn’t. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the ‘comics’ subreddit. But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?” The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.

    Amazing that a blind man can draw comics.

    • Otter
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      The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.

      Assuming this is the info box in new Reddit, those stats always felt… wrong

      The difference between comments/votes and supposed “views” made it seem like the later was inflated.

      Even more obvious was when something got posted at odd hours of the night in a local community. The view count would take off shortly after, while the comments and votes would only show up around when people wake up.

      • @angrystego
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        Could be partly explained by the language (and or cultural) barrier of the people from other parts of the world who view the post at night - when it’s daytime in their country.

    • @Dagnet
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      83 hours ago

      Truly inspiring

      • haui
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        52 hours ago

        You can do anything. Except criticising musk. Thats too far.

    • haui
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      102 hours ago

      Well said, if a little too understated even. In germany, some mention the nuremberg trials and nazis immediately shit their pants. Give it a read if you like.

  • @TootSweet
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    Reddit’s about to get shittier. Again. Either they’ll kowtow to Musk and make it against the rules to ban X links or they’ll give some bland, noncommital, centrist statement about how they respect the hard work their mods put in to keep Reddit going or whatever. I really doubt they’ll make any unequivocal statement condemning Musk as the neo-Nazi shitbag he is.

    • @NineMileTower
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      The second reddit pulls some pro-Elon conservative bullshit, expect Lemmy to be FLOODED.

      Reddit is a liberal haven and there will be a mass exodus if they toe the President Musk line.

        • Chozo
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          51 hour ago

          Alternatively, nobody should stay on Reddit.

        • haui
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          53 hours ago

          Honestly, I dont mind them making fedi instances. We have extremist instances barely anyone federates with, why not have the normies and liberalists have their own? They will probably go to threads anyway which we also defederated. I feel like every person (including musk, the orange and what other hitler wannabe comes next) should be on the fedi and be able to get fucking defederated by everyone. I feel like if that happened, we could finally move on from stateism to something more horizontal/federated but thats just a junior anarchists wet dream I guess.

  • Banana
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    94 hours ago

    Great timing for me to have deleted my account haha

  • @reptar
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    With how active r/fednews has been, no surprise