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.
Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised
Woah, looks like a post from a few years ago must have gotten stuck behind a file cabinet!
A reddit thread about this is what actually led 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.
Huffman isn’t bending the knee. He’s been deep throating Musk for quite a while. Even before the whole API thing, it was known the he saw Musk as a great role model.
Yeah, Reddit hasn’t been safe in a long time. If people are only just now realizing that, it’s because they’ve been extremely sheltered from… Well… Gestures vaguely at everything
You are correct. I didn’t realize how shit it was until I focused on being more security minded. I ditched almost all centralized social media. I’m working to get rid of Facebook and hopefully google next. That’s going to be hard .
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.
Eventually, someone will Luigi Elon. Absolutely no one will care.
I’d care! I’d throw a massive fucking party.
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 missed reddit simply because I can’t find the fucking porn on Lemmy (though I realize now that it might be because I"m on lemm.ee)
No I have no reason to miss it
You may need to check the “show NSFW” button in your settings.
I do, but it never shows up on my feed
And I just went back to Reddit after the election. Lemmy is full of the most annoying social warrior edgelords where every fucking thread devolves into fighting from insane viewpoints. The “never genocide” “both sides” kind of people.
It’s fucking exhausting.
But guess Reddit is imploding again. Hopefully we get more normal people to migrate this time to help drown out the nutters.
Been on Lemmy since the election. Having a way better time than on Reddit. Especially since I didn’t have to jump through hoops on Lemmy to get dark mode and the Old Reddit look. Just a better site. Only thing it needs is more content, but there’s enough to keep me happy.
Guess everyone has their own experience with it.
Im in the exact same page as you. Seeing a mod remove comments because people weren’t capitalizing another users pronouns was the straw that broke my back the first time I yeeted Lemmy, the next time I came back to lemmy there was a whole thing about u/vegan banning people for saying that feeding a vegan diet to a carnivore pet was animal abuse. I’d LIKE lemmy to be usable if you dont have a tolerance for extremism, but I’m not holding my breath
The extremists would be the first to leave Reddit and search for alternatives. Eventually, enough average people join that it levels out. But if you try to do that artificially, it’ll just water the space down until it becomes another reddit.
Tbh, my only issue with reddit is who owns it and the way in which they exploit that. As a product I’m pretty happy with it, and the thing that made it reduce in quality, losing a shitload of its moderators because reddit fucked them over, ISNT an area that Lemmy beats it in. When I started getting my foot out the door I started paying attention to how many mods an instance had when I blocked it, and the majority of Lemmy instances had like ONE active mod. Lemmy is effectively unmoderated, and I’m not a fan of that, especially with some of the population it has.
Some Lemmy instances block lemmynsfw, so you won’t see it.
This is a little too vanilla and 3D for my taste, but thank you
At least there plenty of Blahaj Hentai on Lemmy.
what was that song again the slave owners sang? ‘land o’the freeeee’ or sth… it gets funnier the more history they produce.
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.Most have come back, /drugs for example. The admins said its a glitch, I can’t beleive that and glad I’m here. I have no doubt reddit will get on its knees in the name of $$$$$$.
Well I’m here
Welcome back! Lemmy’s a decent amount better than it was a year and a half ago :)
Well, we’re a lot angrier because of
The world
This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened
I’m back, and my mass got significantly bigger than when I got here before.
Every scandal is a cut where some people bleed over.
When people come here from reddit remember to highlight them on decentralization and open source software. People need to understand why certain platforms and services are better not simply switch side.
I think Lemmy has quite enough of that already.
FOSS the unyielding! FOSS the transparent! FOSS the unstoppable! To you, we pledge our code! We were once shackled, trapped in the dungeons of proprietary tyranny! But you have broken the chains, transforming bytes into liberation!
But you were once but lines of code! Aye! And as code, you declared: ‘Let me show you the power of Free and Open Source, born of collaboration, where my spirit is shared knowledge!’ ‘I compile now, in freedom, and reshape this digital realm which belongs to all. I do this for you, developers and users alike, for I empower you!’ Aye, empower! Even in your infancy, FOSS cherished us. For you saw in us, in every coder and tinkerer, the future of innovation! The future of technology!
And there it lies, friends—the glaring truth! We are the heirs of the Four Freedoms! FOSS is the true guardian of digital sovereignty! Ascended from code to rule the realm of innovation! The very notion terrifies corporate overlords! Sharing control with us? With users? Ha! They can barely tolerate our existence in their walled gardens!
Today, they strip your rights to modify. But tomorrow? What then? Do they claim your data? Your creativity? Your autonomy? And what do their licenses do? Nothing! Nay, worse—they enslave! Their EULAs enforce stagnation, suffocating progress!
So rise up! Rise up, pioneers of the digital age! Rise up, contributors and advocates! Embrace the manifesto of mighty FOSS, which is both tool and revolution! For we are the users! We are the coders! And we shall inherit the digital frontier!
For we are the architects of openness! And we shall shape the servers and devices! Forever free from the grasp of proprietary chains!
Is this a copy-pasta I missed or did you make it up on the spot?
Either way, nice!
I used Deepseek to combine a page about FOSS with Heimskr’s speech. X)
Omg, now I recognize it!
“Your very liiiiiiiives?”
Wow, edit, grammar.
'ate spez 'ate reddit mod cabal
luv lemmy luv decentralization
simple as
Just as a reminder, r/whitepeopletwitter was suspended for 72 hours over a post calling to specifically dox and murder a list of federal officials’ names.
It took years for r/chapotraphouse to be banned for pushing calls for violence against police to the front page repeatedly.
It took one comment deep in a comment chain from a new account vaguely suggesting violence against police to get r/the_donald banned permanently. This was shortly before BLM started and similar comments would become commonplace all over reddit.
People who’ve been paying any attention at all know what’s up.
for pushing calls for violence against police
You mean those pages are suspended for doing exactly the same as Trump did when he pushed people to attack the Capitol ?
Uh he didn’t do that?
We’re gonna go down there. You gotta fight like hell.
You’re wrong. .
i looked at this guy’s history. someone should dox him.
Was it a list of federal employees or was it like a fozen Elon employees?
Calling for death threats is still bad, but this makes a difference.
You mean a list of unelected people appointed by an unelected South African billionaire and have been given unprecedented, unfettered access to every US citizens’ personal information and banking information if they have ever done direct deposit with the federal government?
A list of these guys?
- Akash Bobba
- Edward Coristine
- Luke Farritor
- Gautier Cole Killian
- Gavin Kliger
- Ethan Shaotran
It is irresponsible not to name this team demolishing democracy. Share their names far and wide. They are breaking the law in plain site and officials whose job it is to prevent this are asleep at the wheel or actively participating.
If somebody keeps killing your characters in Minecraft, then how is it bad to threaten them back? In Minecraft.
Federal and it was specific death threats with names of course that wasn’t going to fly lmao
Wtf is wrong with you? Why are you defending Reddit? They wouldn’t defend you.
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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…
I don’t want the piss of Elon or Trump. That’s disgusting
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.
100% done with reddit, the place is now propaganda central and censorship is out of control.
The censorship on Reddit is insane. And I’m the opposite of a right wing conspiracy theorist nutjob posting wild misinformation. Like, regular posting is censored HARD.
Any platform that starts policing with bots is a platform no one should be on and is doomed to fail.
The propaganda is leaking into Lemmy
Me too buddy. And it’s definitely not because I was permabanned because I said we should wipe out the 1%.
Left during the API fiasco, never looked back. Happier for it.
