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.
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 $$$$$$.
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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
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.
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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!
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'ate spez 'ate reddit mod cabal
luv lemmy luv decentralization
simple as
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.
Me too buddy. And it’s definitely not because I was permabanned because I said we should wipe out the 1%.
The propaganda is leaking into Lemmy
Left during the API fiasco, never looked back. Happier for it.
99% same but there’s some subs Lemmy hasn’t been able to replace for me yet. like cptsdmemes. in general mental health communities are very lacking on here, if not completely absent
Yeah, I miss a lot of the smaller music communities. Different specific genres or even just artist based communities.
Yeah, there are some things lacking here, but it’s only gotten better and better since I joined.
Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised
Lol.
Lmao even.
Reddit has never been a safe place for free speech.
It was until they had to delete the canary.
That was over a decade ago though.
What’s that?
yes it has, but it was like 15 years ago and absolutely wild
Try 18 years ago, when Aaron Swartz left.
where does the time go
Into the corners of your eyes and your lower back
The time didn’t go anywhere, we did.
I’m gonna have to check on fuckcara and cyberstuck
Sorry to post a reddit thread, but supposedly this was because of death threats to Elon bootlickers. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ihq6ht/whats_going_on_with_whitepeopletwitter_that_got/
Which is ironic because Elon notoriously promoted project veritas literally catfishing his own employees at Twitter, and also brought back accounts like libsoftiktok that existed to target private individuals. But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.
How is advocating violence any better than being fascist? I don’t get it. It’s weird there’s this flood of violent threats and people treat it like it’s okay. But it’s not, it’s not any better than fascists threatening violence.
Spez lied about a phone call with one of the third party app devs back in 2023. He’s not fair with us, don’t be fair with him.
But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.
The only consistent rule for the past decade or so at reddit has been “don’t sass the nazis.”
The resistance will be federated.
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.
He looks like he has cyborg eyes.
The picture is altered
True. The original does not have the text.
Thanks for the chuckle!
It just emphasizes what’s already there.
His teeth are so weird
He was also a competitive ballroom dancer in college. I wish I could find some pictures or videos… Seriously, come on internet, help me out.
What’s wrong with competitive ballroom dancing?
Absolutely nothing.
This is the 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha champion.
You might know him by the name Bruce Lee.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
That ship sailed years ago.
Lol… it never was
Yeah… was the whole Ellen pao thing 10 years ago? There’s been dreams every time a sub is banned for ages.
I don’t blame them for backing the jailbait sub, that was creepy as fuck.
Or coontown.
I forgot about that. Good riddance.
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Looks like a bunch of incels being pathetic together. If that’s where you’re finding your masculinity you should probably rethink your entire life from the ground up because you took a wrong turn somewhere.
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.
Fuck spez
