Warning: Elon Musk now has Huffman bending the knee. Whitepeopletwitter, iselondeadyet and loads of other Elon critical subs have been banned or suspended.
Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
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.
Gotcha, Jihad in action was press releases from Islamic militant groups about their actions so every bombing, murder, raid etc that anyone announced on twitter was there. It was a huge collection of propaganda.
I don’t want the piss of Elon or Trump. That’s disgusting
Spez desperately wants a place on the big bois table
ikr I don’t think spez “bent the knee” so much as he was probably pestering Elon night and day asking how he could help.
“Why did he put those other 22 yr old boys in govt and not meeeeee??”
what was that song again the slave owners sang? ‘land o’the freeeee’ or sth… it gets funnier the more history they produce.
Number of people surprised by this turn of events: 0
No? You can’t just call for people’s death and leak their info. It’s actually illegal, that’s why they got temp banned.
We cant just vote and protest. We have to kill a few of them or they will just laugh. All our right were won in blood and if we arent willing to kill them when they try to step out of line, we will be left with nothing.
The right has been doing this for like a decade now.
That’s not justification. “If they do it we can do it”. If lose your morals in an effort to “get even”, what makes one any better than the other?
I agree it’s not a justification. I just think it’s worth pointing out the hypocrisy when Elon has been platforming Chaya Raichik, who does the exact same thing (to private citizens who have done nothing wrong, mind you).
You can do it on twitter.
since when has distributing publicly available information (where Elon currently is located) been illegal?
You’ve made up something which I’ve never said. Government workers address, cellphone numbers, and email addresses are not publicly available. What does Elon Musk have to do with this?
the post did specifically mention elon, repeatedly. Many people do post information that contains their location on their social media, which is generally public. I suppose it also depends on how one defines publicly available as with a permissive enough definition data leaks and targeted advertisment data would be allowed.
How do people not expect this of Reddit by now
Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.
Do you think the up and coming bluesky might end up like that
Without some kind of mechanism to cap off growth, I think any social media service will end up like Facebook. As for the concept of a fediverse here, I think certain instances will definitely turn to shit, but it’s up to the individual instance rules to figure that out.
Here from reddit also. Guilty of leveling criticism against the dominant culture in my state. If you want to be my friend please reach out 🙏
Welcome!
Make sure to try the All section too find new communities! You can block instances or communities you don’t like to moderate your own feed, it’s a lot less algorithmic than reddit is these days. Hot is what Reddit used to sort by.
A reddit thread about this is what actually lead me here. Reddit has been on my shit list for a while, it’s cool this place exists.
Non-corporate owned media is going to be the only way to escape the continued enshittification of the internet.
We should be going back on there and proselytizing (and on this end, welcoming new users with h links to documentation etc.) btw if you’re new I recommend checking out the various mobile clients. I personally use lemmy sync because of muscle memory from years of using it on reddit, but there’s a number of open source ones too.
I agree. I do worry about the barrier to entry for some people. I know it gets brought up a lot here but I think it’s a valid criticism.
Looking into apps was actually the first thing I did after making an account!
I used Sync for a few minutes, but then settled on Voyager because they don’t collect any data.
Voyager is very nice btw.
Welcome! Bring your content, enjoy the friendly people :)
And form a positive opinion on Linux man. Just any opinion. They’ll slaughter you without one it’s rough out there
And if you don’t have an opinion on linux just reply with “I use arch btw”
Linux bad
I love my Steam Deck.
It was always against the rules to do that. Nothing changed, except (from what I heard, I don’t use Reddit anymore so correct me if I’m wrong) mods stopped enforcing the rule with regards to Musk, Musk put the spotlight on it, and Reddit (a shitty corporation trying desperately to be profitable) couldn’t really do anything but enforce the rule.
It is true that Huffman is an asshole and probably likes the guy, but if it was some other public figure I don’t think the outcome would be different.
The warrant canary died almost a decade ago. it hasn’t been a safe place for a very long time.
Could there be a better example of why not to remain on Reddit?
The United States of America has become comfortable with bending the knee to petulant man-children. What an utterly pathetic time to be an American. Truly embarrassing.
I hope that a new breed of American can rise from this inferno, who exemplifies what it means to be good people. Whether some of us will be standing proud a decade from now…who knows?
Good. That will only sped up Reddit pulling a bluesky on their asses.
All they need to do is find a distributed alternative that won’t bend the knee to any one entity.Fuck…ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. 🖕
I finally made the jump to here today. I have no idea what federated means but I had have it with Reddit. It’s all bots and reposts.
There is a bunch of different servers and anyone can start their own server if they want to.
Server admins can decide with which servers they exchange information or which they block.
So if one server goes down or the admins there go rogue powertripping, the rest can remain unaffected.
For the most part your user experience is pretty much the same like on reddit, with a better culture here. But if something really rubs you the wrong way, you can switch your home server, or make your own instead of only being able to leave.
Welcome!
Glad you’re here, hope you stick around and help make it better and better.
Eventually, someone will Luigi Elon. Absolutely no one will care.
Hey now… for about 10 minutes a bunch of people with names like Groyper1488, IdFuckMyTeslaIfItHadATailpipe and BitcoinKing will be very upset.
They won’t care that he has been luigied, they will care about their shytocurrency.
Hence why the period of mourning would only be 10 minutes.
I’d care! I’d throw a massive fucking party.
The resistance will be federated.
