This dude is the CEO of Tesla and is also the head of DOGE, busy cutting critical services for millions of Americans so more billionaires can get richer... He really has nothing better to do than to pressure other companies to restrict user content!?
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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This is what brought me to lemmy after getting threatened to be banned for up voting anti trump and musk post. Fuck trump, fuck musk and fuck spez. Fucking goofs.
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Spez is a soft bitch
Reddit is a publicaly traded company, and fElon has more money that countries. So, he could literally just buy Reddit and turn it into a propaganda machine. Glad I left. There are some UI stuff that I will miss (like having sub-reddits as a fast-access at the top of the page, or that replies to a posting on Reddit would be indented, or /r/place), but I'll survive here.
I have a bit of a pet peeve when people use petty terms like fElon or Elmo. It just seems a bit childish and communicates that you're only interested ad hominem.
But that was before I heard the moniker "Phony Stark". I think we should always use this to refer to Elon because I think it's hilarious.
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What I hate about Lemmy is the lack of content in semi-specific communities.
What I love about Lemmy is that there's so much less content overall. I run out of content and I log off. Reddit was a bottomless pit.
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I wonder if he'd lift all the bans, like he did with Xitter, considering he is responsible for a decent chunk of them.
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I’m glad I escaped the cracking glass dildo that reddit has become
It's shameful. Reddit is a shell of its former self.
Banning 3rd party apps was the tipping point for me. Their official app is shit.
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You’re a decade late on that
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Yep got a temp 3 day ban on reddit just saying that let's hope the masked police don't mess up with someone who has conceal carry license.. that is all I said, then boom temp ban.
Reddit is compromised.
Yeah, Reddit has been leaned on. And is compliant.
Leave it to spez to fold like a cheap suit.
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Liquidate Musk
Reddit, or at least the subs I frequented, is a cesspool of russian trolls and bots. I made the apparent mistake of calling a couple of trolls out in the r/Europe sub and asked why they weren't in Kursk, and pffft...permanent ban from all of reddit for "inciting violence". I think my blood pressure has improved since then, tbh.
Good thing there are no Russian bots on Lemmy.
Not sure about bots, but I've certainly encountered some trolls. And some people grafted to Elmo's starfish. At least they aren't a protected species here...
That sounds like the_donald applied to the whole site.
I never actually visited that sub, but I heard it alluded to enough to loathe it...
It was legitimately funny, when it was still a joke. The memes were good. There was no way that idiot was going to be a serious contender. It was all in good fun.
At least until someone would say, "you know this is just a joke, right?" Any kind of self-awareness was banned within seconds. Now I don't know if you're familiar with volunteer moderators, but it's pretty rare that they catch that kind of volume 24 hours a day within seconds.
I fully believe there were state-level troll farms operated by a hostile foreign government moderating that subreddit.
... and now they're applying that to the entire site.
I know the UK sub took a hard right turn shortly before the election and it was almost an overnight change
Honestly, I don't think Lemmy, or any other anonymous social media can really counter this. Outside of heavy moderation in the opposite direction, anyway, which doesn't feel great.
It's just too easy for hostile governments to spin up as many dozens of accounts as they need to argue against you, argue on your side (but badly), and simply just drown you out. It doesn't take much of that for real people to retreat. Why would you post an opinion that you know is going to immediately get shit on by a dozen "people"?
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That would not surprise me in the slightest. Drumph had a lot of help, starting with those fucking "actors" who cheered him as he descended the golden elevator. He certainly didn't get there based on merit LOL.
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