Fuck no, great way to alienate yourselves, stifle platform growth and decrease content/engagement
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I think both Twitter and Musk are incredibly toxic for society, but we don't want to set that precedent. People can make their own choice whether to visit the site. At most, links to Twitter should be flagged as such.
Sure. Don't need it.
Only have installed for news from some creators I follow and don't have any other presence.
Yes
Yes, PLEASE! Even without the whole Sieg Heil debacle Twitter is ass to use if you're not a registered user. Same with Meta & co.
I don't think you should do this, so what makes you better than them? π€·ββοΈ [About blocking pixelfed mentions on META]
Stop asking and just ban it already
As a source for OC art and pics? No
As a URL in post? Yes
Anything from US media should be banned as well. The US created nato using a lot of high-level nazi party members. It supports nazi collaborator Banderaists in Ukraine.
Automatically replace them with xcancel links or something.
Yes... we should probably ban Xitter links... but maybe allow other front ends? You know, because screenshots can be forged.
No
I'm all for banning oligarchic media (news, social, etc). The dude sig heiled and literally controlled the social media narrative to further his political agenda, and people are like "buT MY fReE sPeACH!". Also, I can't even read those posts since they require you to log in.
yes
Yes.
Evidence suggests that X is a hate site run by a fascist.
Meta isn't quite there yet, but heading in the same direction.
Regardless if he is a saint or not, it's super centralized social media and we shouldn't support it
Do you think Lemmy should act like Meta, which banned Pixelfed links and Mastodon instances?
Logic like this is like refusing to use violence against colonizers because your colonizer uses violence.
Tactics cannot be evaluated solely on the basis of whether your opponent uses them. Banning certain sources robs them of a little bit more reach and that's a good thing if you're talking about an explicitly fascist platform. I think either screenshots or archive links should be the only time x posts are allowed.
Slippery slope of censorship. Where would it stop?
with a federated linked network of social media sites run by it's users
The way I see it, the slippery slope that we're currently on is tolerating nazis and bigots.
Things that aren't Nazis might be a good stopping point
... does ML still block curse words?
yes
Would it be possible to automatically change Twitter links posted and substitute them with a mirror site?
Wasn't Lemmy supposed to be for free speech/anti-censorship and shit? Or maybe I got it wrong? Yall do realize there are many reasonable things on X and not just the right-wing/Elon stuff. Right?
You have to be willing to walk away from and ignore corporate media platforms, or else they'll never be defeated. And content creators need to also learn to not post their stuff to these platforms.
Some people take umbrage in supporting a publication owned by a nazi.
Yes
does not make any sense to ban if you dont want x link just dont open it but letting data to not flow on instance and instead using screenshot will just decrease the storage
Yes.
Yes
Yes.
no. but I hope the software increasingly gives power doward. block at every level for the individual. block keywords. follow other uses blocklists. etc. and communities should decide at that level but ideally at the highest level you want no interferance.
It would be nice to have more curation control as a user.
Yes
I'd prefer to see people screenshot/crop and also link to an archived version or a frontend. These services (X, Instagram, Meta, etc.) often require you to login for a lot of things (including seeing posts) and also block VPNs.
It definitely is harmful to Lemmy's userbase to click on these links, but I also don't think we should create a walled garden. Users can always choose to use solutions like LibRedirect.