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Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X (www.404media.co)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Summary

Hundreds of subreddits are debating banning links to X.com (formerly Twitter) following Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at a Trump rally.

Dozens of subreddit moderators have already implemented bans, while others are holding votes among their communities.

The bans span political, regional, and topical subreddits, including r/NewJersey, r/londonOntario, and r/christianity, with some highlighting Musk’s gesture alongside neo-Nazi imagery.

This move reflects growing backlash against Musk and his platform over perceived alignment with extremist symbolism.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Boycotting Twitter is a good idea for many reasons. However this kind of blanket link ban will lead to more informational segregation quickly. This has already happened in many ways since the beginning of the war on Ukraine. Linking to Telegram or any Russian website is no longer allowed in many forums, e. g. Reddit. That has made finding original sources and verifying information much more difficult.

Take links to videos for example. Reddit is full of videos copied from YouTube, Telegram, TikTok, etc. without attributing the original source. The World Wide Web was supposed to link information together into a network, where you can follow up on origins snd details. Nowadays it has turned into a series of copy & paste silos, enabling the most extreme echo chambers.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Are there other sites to which links are banned? I don't really like that policy for anything no matter how nefarious. Unless it's malware or a liability and going to land the visitor in prison.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Links to Russian websites and telegram are banned on most of not all subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Paywalled link

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could stop using WhatsApp but that's where all the people without phone plans are. I wish I could stop using Telegram but that's where all the drug dealers are. I wish Reddit would ban X links, but that's where all the sassy hot takes are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can of course, you're just chosing to support zuck, musk and durov because it's slightly inconvenient for you not to

Of those three, telegram isn't as bad though. They're insecure and share data with law enforcement etc, but they're not as active and enthusiastic collaborators with Trump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My point is the network effect. That's where people are and I have no power to change that, so that is where I must sometimes be. If it was up to me, things would be wonderful and open source. But I sometimes have to deal with — ugh... humans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It is up to you though. I get that you can make the choice that supporting zuck and musk is an OK price to pay to not have to do a little more work or be the annoying person saying "I only have Signal" but it is very much your choice. You could choose differently, if your priorities were different

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

India alone is about 2 billion people who all use WhatsApp. I cannot change the world. I hear you and would love for us all to switch to federated or — at least — decentralized things, or whatever. I will advocate for it, but like banks and shit are using WhatsApp. It is legitimized here even more than MMS. I can't stop it. And yes, I have made the choice to communicate with humans rather than using Signal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I did that for a while. The thing that happened was that I got left out of stuff, because people didn't always think of informing me separately, when it was already discussed in the already existing groups. Sometimes they would inform me after all the planning was done what the plans were, sometimes I got a last minute info or no info at all. So the choice was between a significant loss in my social life and using the same service as everyone else in my social circles.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And they'll eventually not do it considering they are still debating about it. Just do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Some have already banned, some are in the process of voting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ban links to reddit please. Fucking cesspool. Ban the self-righteous know-it-all users too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I can't believe it's taken this long. I get disappointed when microblogmeme jpegs don't have 2 @ symbols in them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Reddit's response to this will reveal where Reddit likely falls on the Spectrum of Evil. They're a privately-held company, so any possible protection money they may have paid to the Nazis won't be visible like Meta's and such until the FEC report is (likely never) released in 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they recently go public? They're traded as RDDT on the New York Stock Exchange.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, they went public last year. And despite all the gloating on lemmy about a drop in share price right after the ipo, it's up 500% since then.

Edit: 300%

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't say for sure, but knowing spez, Reddit Inc willl be bleep Trump's bleep harder than a Philippine bleep on a black Friday sale...

50 bucks say that within 6 months Reddit will have a policy that prohibits reddit subs from blocking twatter links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I would not take that bet lol, i guarantee they are tweaking over this and scared about how this effects shareholders, they should be more worried about all the sus nsfw stuff right next to ads for "wholesome" companies

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they will leave oligarch owned social media next.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean I doubt it. After all, the next-best thing is Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

LMAO well said. It sucks that we really don't have a decent alternative to reddit. I miss my niche subs.

Digg should have never released V4. It was reddit's only competition, but now it's a soulless, corporate curated media platform. You can't even comment anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are any Lemmy instances banning x links? I haven't heard of it, but would be in favor of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We're currently conducting a vote on dbzer0 for it via a pinned post.

Last I checked the count was overwhelmingly for banning links to X.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Just ban it!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So that's what it takes before people think of leaving twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

People have been leaving Twitter in waves for years. This is just another one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They have concepts of leaving, but addiction is a bitch. Most will stay.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Have had twitter blocked in my dns server for ages. All the big social media companies. Totally worth it.

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