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Every scandal is a cut where some people bleed over.
This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened
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Just as a reminder, r/whitepeopletwitter was suspended for 72 hours over a post calling to specifically dox and murder a list of federal officials' names.
It took years for r/chapotraphouse to be banned for pushing calls for violence against police to the front page repeatedly.
It took one comment deep in a comment chain from a new account vaguely suggesting violence against police to get r/the_donald banned permanently. This was shortly before BLM started and similar comments would become commonplace all over reddit.
People who've been paying any attention at all know what's up.
for pushing calls for violence against police
You mean those pages are suspended for doing exactly the same as Trump did when he pushed people to attack the Capitol ?
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Was it a list of federal employees or was it like a fozen Elon employees?
Calling for death threats is still bad, but this makes a difference.
If somebody keeps killing your characters in Minecraft, then how is it bad to threaten them back? In Minecraft.
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When people come here from reddit remember to highlight them on decentralization and open source software. People need to understand why certain platforms and services are better not simply switch side.
'ate spez 'ate reddit mod cabal
luv lemmy luv decentralization
simple as
100% done with reddit, the place is now propaganda central and censorship is out of control.
Left during the API fiasco, never looked back. Happier for it.
99% same but there's some subs Lemmy hasn't been able to replace for me yet. like cptsdmemes. in general mental health communities are very lacking on here, if not completely absent
Yeah, I miss a lot of the smaller music communities. Different specific genres or even just artist based communities.
Yeah, there are some things lacking here, but it's only gotten better and better since I joined.
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I'm not even remotely surprised. Anybody who has been following the history of Reddit will know that their senior management are spineless and will change their stance at a whim when it either hurts their public image or it no longer becomes viable from a business perspective.
We're forgetting that this is the same site that allowed jailbait, creepshots, racial hatred, right wing propaganda, rampant misogyny, gore videos, terrorist propaganda (if anyone remembers ISIL) and other disgusting content to proliferate until various scandals forced their hand. Spez in particular is a massive snake that will throw people under the bus and lie through his teeth if it benefits him.
But then again, with a government as volatile as this, maybe you don't want to piss of Trump or Musk...
Jihadin Action wasn't ISIL/ISIS/DAESH propaganda. They spread other propaganda too!
The real issue was almost nothing you list was illegal at the time except potentially creepshots as odds are some had to be kids (IDK not my bag- kids or creep stuff). Whereas, specific calls to targeted violence against specific people is an actual crime in the country where reddit is headquartered. I don't like what they did but it makes sense.
People should get off of reddit because of reasons other than this
I'm referring specifically to the uncut ISIL execution videos that used to be all over r/watchpeopledie years ago.
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I'm gonna have to check on fuckcara and cyberstuck