Pressure? .... you mean a text or a quick phone call telling him what to do
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Oh right, that site from the past I haven't opened in weeks. How are they doing? Is it still a cesspool of idiocy and advertisements for scams?
Seeing what reddit has been doing, this isnt suprising
I mean Reddit is a a corporate/military opinion/sentiment farm and a US Mil psyop conduit. Look up DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communications project.
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Someone (especially someone in a position of power) calling someone’s actions illegal (whether true and/or justified or not) is advocating state-sponsored violence against that person.
these two losers deserve each other.
That was very obvious ngl
Yeah, we know.
I'm glad to be here on a platform free of Musk's direct influence.
That makes sense. Spez is such a spineless dweeb, it checks out that a narcissistic blowhard like Musk would be pushing him around.
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I haven't been to reddit since it happened, I imagine many others did the same.
I've been trying to switch but it's just so dead over here. We need more posters to make the jump
Flying Squid has disappeared the past month. Very active user. I am worried.
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I've been here since Apigate. It's getting more active, but not the same. However, I've found myself actually scrolling less due to the less content, which has been a good thing for my mental health.
And the obligatory F Spez, F Elon.
You gotta Field of Dreams it; post in communities you want to see liven up and people will follow, it just takes time.
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There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.
There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.
Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.
Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.
I have to use all for browsing and just block communities and instances that I don't care about.
Really? It was less active than Reddit about a year ago, but now it's not that different in terms of how often the front page changes. Browse by all and just block whichever instances and communities you don't want to see. I'd much rather have fewer comments than most of them being bots and children spamming dumb shit.
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Fine for me. Don't need a lot of troll bots and junk opinions from the uninformed. 🤷♂️
Or reposts
Or all the inane/AI generated ragebait wall of texts on AITA and the like
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Well that explains why I dropped reddit. Anything Musk touches turns to shit.
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Fuck you spez!
Wasn't Elon Musk the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist"? Turns out it was the "free speech abolitionist" after all.
The extreme right wing in the US, has always had things they claim to revere, but don't actually believe in.
- Free Speech
- Free Markets
- Democracy
- The Constitution
Probably more
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Apparently free speech absolutist means "absolutely no free speech" according to fElon.
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It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.
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