The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
  • WheelchairArtist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    why do they still show these kind of pictures of him. for me there is only one picture of him to show from now on

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh yes for the totally unproblematic picture taken at the inauguration, and since it’s so unproblematic he can’t possibly have an issue with it being posted.

      Although a solid second favorite is him in a punk leather jacket. Mostly because he hates it.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    Remember last time Redditor’s protested only to cave so they could keep being mods? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Reddit users are about to get reminded that its not their platform to make rules

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Disagree, but I also almost never follow them anyway. I pretty much only follow a link if I think it’s to a first party article or something.

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        How can you have been on Lemmy longer than me yet have such a fundamental misunderstanding of centralized/non-federated vs decentralized/federated?

      • Pixlbabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Here we go. If let’s just say all the instances came together and did the same ban because some hivemind mentality had taken over. It would metaphorically be centralized again. The chances of that happening-probably zero.

  • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Meta, Twitter, now tiktok. BLATANTLY obvious coordination to propagandize social media.

    Fuck then all, damn then to hell, scourge of modern society.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I used to spend time on Facebook catching up with friends and family. That was way back in like 2010. I can’t stand that platform now. It’s all AI trash and random reels. I don’t even know why I’m getting some of these reels but I suspect they are sharing data with other platforms like YT. I miss the internet of the 2000s…

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

    Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

    Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I saw it from the monster hunter community, now you can’t post the source of a fanart lol.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can always leave their @handle if you want to credit them. Most artists also have other channels. If they only have X… Well sucks to be them but it’s thteir choice.

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Twitter probably benefits from people being redirected to their site from repostings with how it has become the go to source for news like sports, so it might. Won’t hurt Elon financially but less people being exposed to the content there that Elon wants to push that don’t actively use Twitter is a good thing even if it is only a few.

      Even small moves is a good thing with how over the years sports and game submissions have become increasingly more Twitter submissions.

    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      The less its posts are shared, the less its relevance is to the world. I can’t see that as a bad thing. It always baffled me how outsize Twitter’s influence was on world events/news while having 1/5th the active userbase of Facebook.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Don’t do it as a “protest.” Do it as the new norm. Xitter has no worth and should be relegated to the porta-potty of time.

  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    A more fractured internet is coming. Posting sources will be forbidden. Discourse will become more polarized, disconnected, and extreme.

    Most of these Reddit bans on Twitter are also half assed. They still allow screenshots of Twitter posts. That means the content is still spread, and Twitter remains relevant.

    Lots of these subreddits don’t even get a lot of Twitter links in the first place. Like for lotrmemes it makes zero difference.

    That said, Musk and Twitter suck. I have deleted my Twitter account three years ago.

    However there still is some information, where Twitter is a good source.

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      However there still is some information, where Twitter is a good source.

      I agree. There are some great OSINT posters that share all sorts of information you won’t find anywhere else. For example when Israel struck back at Iran after the initial wave of missiles and drones- it was a guy on twitter who geolocated and found the satellite images of what they hit.

      And that information directly contradicted the Israeli official narrative. You won’t find it on NY Times. You won’t find it on Washington Post. Hell, you’d have a hard time finding it here or on reddit. That’s just one example, there’s a wealth of live data about Russia v Ukraine as well. One thing I’ve really learned the last 3 years since 2022 is that the mainstream media will completely lie to you. It isn’t just bias, it’s outright lying. So people online who are dedicated to the truth and provide receipts, I find, is a breath of fresh air. It allows humans without privileged information to go online and actually see with their own eyes what is happening on the ground. It’s something that frankly hasn’t been the case for any time in human history. Although I think it’s going to be a short window of time that will be true.

      I think Twitter has progressively been becoming more censored. For now, most people are more or less ignored if you aren’t talking about the hot topics- but I think very soon anything against official US narrative will be banned. Same thing with Facebook, Tiktok, etc.

      We’re seeing the social media sites align themselves with the US government in preparation for the next global war. The first thing to go in war is the truth. Soon there will be a giant firewall and we won’t be able to see content from overseas. Initially people will be able to use VPNs and other methods and then eventually that will be met with criminal charges.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If we like it or not, twitter is still the most important social network for journalisst and thinktankers.

      • shortrounddev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Twitter has always been the red headed step child of social media. It had outsized cultural importance because most people consumed it via screenshot, not actually browsing the site. The reach of an individual twitter user is greatly augmented by their reach on other social platforms via screenshot