Hello! Migrated over to Lemmy. I’ve noticed in the past few weeks a lot of posts/comments about protests, criticizing Nazis and Elon being censored/removed. This was all magnified in the past few hours as /r/whitepeopletwitter was banned tonight to satisfy fElon.

  • db0
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    6 days ago

    Holy shit! Is there no limit to this fucker’s reach? Money really does buy everything.

    • Iceblade
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      115 days ago

      When power and tools are given to a central authority to dictate what communication, expression and thought is “prohibited”, for essentially any reason, it is only a matter of time before that is abused.

  • jackeryjoo
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    225 days ago

    Why are people still using Xitter? jesus. Move on to mastadon or bluesky or anything other than this insane nazi’s personal media platform.

  • goferking (he/him)
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    185 days ago

    The only surprising part of this is that it’s for posts about doge employees and not banning Twitter links

  • @DarkFuture
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    105 days ago

    Another reason to leave Reddit.

  • Inf_V
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    146 days ago

    if I wasn’t a mod of a subreddit I’d consider deleting it entirely. definitely going to limit my use permanently after reading this, Fuck Elon.

    • @vxx
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      285 days ago

      I left my subreddit of 10 million users behind when it became apparent that spez isnt better than musk.

      Get a grip.

    • Polygondenimland
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      255 days ago

      You’re not required to keep being a mod there, you know

      • Inf_V
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        05 days ago

        I have commitments, plus the community which I’m working on a game for I interact with is only on reddit primarily.

        • @[email protected]
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          205 days ago

          Those commitments are ephemeral at best and can also be recreated over here. I’m using Voyager and honestly it feels no different than being on Reddit from a UI. People are moving to Mastadon, BlueSky, PixelFeed and others so it’s already been proven it’s not too hard to move.

        • @lennybird
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          55 days ago

          You do you. A lot of people here are probably bullshitting themselves; and honestly, leaving will only exacerbate the problem of media silos. They want to take over Reddit and turn it into another X when there it still has a massive Anti-Trump presence, evidently by this sub getting temp-banned.

          • Inf_V
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            45 days ago

            yeah I like interacting isolated with the three communities I still consider normal hobby wise,once everything dries up though I would leave then, otherwise this is still my main interaction outlet so far.

  • @[email protected]
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    15 days ago

    To be fair, last time I visited it I found some dumb posts and content (the subreddit name being one of the reasons), but it seems like it was pretty appreciated

    PS: Fuck Musk

  • @LinuxEnjoyer
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    There were a lot of highly upvoted actual death threads on the sub. I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone on this websites but if you have a bunch of posts with thousands of upvotes calling for mass murder, it’s obvious what’s going to happen.

    • @P00ptart
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      295 days ago

      How is one guy a mass murder?

      • @LinuxEnjoyer
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        How is “pink mist them all” refering to one guy?

        • @P00ptart
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          75 days ago

          Where in the screenshot does it say that?

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            The entire reason that subreddit was closed was due to the post that hit the frontpage with more than 15k upvotes about two days ago and the comments in the thread. Claiming that it was banned for no reason or simply because Musk wished for it is either in bad faith or straight up lying. I saw that thread being made and it was obviously violating Reddit ToS (and the actual law) so hard it should’ve been instantly deleted. Yet it wasn’t.

              • @[email protected]
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                95 days ago

                It also seems like they are more or less talking about the 6 or so Hitler Youth Musknhas working for him too.

                So while it would be advocating murder, I am not so sure about the “Mass” part.

                • @LinuxEnjoyer
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                  -55 days ago

                  So while it would be advocating murder, I am not so sure about the “Mass” part.

                  Oh, that’s fine then, my bad!

            • @[email protected]
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              75 days ago

              Sounds like something to address with individuals through moderation, and maybe a site ban for individuals depending on TOS details, not the entire sub.

              Banning the entire sub, then, comes across as something else entirely.

              So I can’t say I’d agree with you.

    • Anas
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      35 days ago

      I’ve seen way worse that doesn’t even result in a comment removal, let alone a whole subreddit getting banned.