Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’
Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter citing a "prevalence of violent content."
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Reddit is going to get a whole lot worse over these next years.
Of course it is, especially in this new era of censorship and restricted speech, brought to you by a self claimed free speech absolutist.
From my point of view, it seems like the only solution is to move away from corporate social media, and to federated foss platforms that are much harder to stifle on a global stage.
It'll be interesting to see if the world will shift in response to continued encroachment on liberty, or if we just continue to take it.
well yeah it's been straight the fuck up AIDS since Obama bounced and it was certainly staying the course
The whole internet is collectively getting worse tbh. Independent sites demand a resurgence.
Already is. But how much further can they go?
The sad thing is that even with all these scandals, MAU/DAU growth in the threadiverse is flat.
We've seen an uptick in sign-ups. It's nothing like Pixelfed's day in the sun but it is noticeable but may only be obvious in the numbers over the longer term.
This isn't the only sub being shut down (obvious ones like r/iselondeadyet are also gone) and we may be days away from Rexxit 2.0. It's something I'm planning for with the other Admins on our instance.
Good to hear!
Yes, I do think (hope?) that will be another migration wave. Hopefully one that can kickstart organic double digit YoY MAU growth as well as getting total MAUs over 100K.
eh, quality > quantity. As long as we can support and improve the platforms we're good.
I agree. That's why I've largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.
I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.
But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.
It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.
But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.
I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.
Good news! Reddit is starting to ban porn so there might be a user wave on its way!
Give it some time. It took a while for people to "get" reddit, it will take some time for people to understand federated social media to the point that they feel comfortable using it.
I know we are all here because of our distaste of Reddit.
HOWEVER in a capitalist system the only thing to speak volumes is the people who speak up.
If there is a way for us to email or blast the admins of Reddit then we should. Not for Reddit but to start a backlash. If we stay silent then nothing changes.
I bed of you all to actually report false information. There has been no law broken. There has been no laws passed only executive orders thus far.
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001103212
I’m not asking for the sake of Reddit. I’m asking for the sake of everything else.
When you find things like this, take 5 minutes, that’s it. Research the company find the place to complain and do it.
The only thing that speaks in capitalism is money. Want to hurt reddit? Leave. Reddit makes money with your data, stop giving it to those asshats. Your emails will be ignored until you start talking in the way that can hurt them.
I clearly failed to make my point. This isn’t about Reddit. It’s about a company folding based on bullshit. A law has to go through Congress and be signed by the president before it becomes law. An executive order is not a law. And only elected person like mosque, saying something is not law.
If we let companies fold here about absolute nothing then it’s just the peak. Everything else fails after that.
Edit: Actually, no I didn’t fail to make my point you’re just ignoring it. I said multiple times is not about Reddit.
Did that sub just post screnshots from Twitter?
I used to think it was releated to racism due to the name.
Basically. Usually it was a tweet that was either funny or being made fun of. For some reason there was a separate subreddit for tweets made by black people. Possibly to make fun of racial segregation?
I think every lemmy instance should create a daily/weekly (depending on size) “Welcome!” thread, so we can greet all the newcomers.
He said it was due to the prevelance of violent content...coming from an unelected illegal immigrant who cheated to get someone elected who literally pardoned hundreds of violent felons, WHO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
So did reddit suspend anyone who posted stories about the federal workers information.
And once Elon asks them to unblock X they will
I was permanently banned from reddit for “threatening violence against places” when I made a sarcastic comment about someone else’s plan to fix the housing crisis by destroying housing as it was being constructed.
I can’t believe these people who are openly calling for mass murder aren’t being banned. My reddit account had zero problems for twelve years and then I was banned over that one comment, for a rule that doesn’t exist (they told me I’d broken the rule against “violence against places”, but no such rule exists).
The obvious bias over there pisses me off.
This place isn't any better. Post you were answering to, got removed xD
Overthrowing the government is illegal
I really don't want to watch a YouTube video, but I do want to call for violence.
Violence is often the correct answer
But platforms cannot host and spread demands for violence without being an accessory to the crimes advocated.