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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

A lot of subreddits are banning/proposing to ban X links in response to Führer Elon's wonderful gesture of love and tolerance. Should this instance follow suit?

Also, Instagram/Threads/Meta links. Same question.

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago
[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Slippery slope of censorship. Where would it stop?

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 day ago

Things that aren't Nazis might be a good stopping point

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[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago
[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Would it be possible to automatically change Twitter links posted and substitute them with a mirror site?

[-] xelar@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Do you think Lemmy should act like Meta, which banned Pixelfed links and Mastodon instances?

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[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Wasn't Lemmy supposed to be for free speech/anti-censorship and shit? Or maybe I got it wrong? Yall do realize there are many reasonable things on X and not just the right-wing/Elon stuff. Right?

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Some people take umbrage in supporting a publication owned by a nazi.

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Ashelyn 8 points 1 day ago

Haha nice one that's so based and kekpilled my duderino

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago
[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

You have to be willing to walk away from and ignore corporate media platforms, or else they'll never be defeated. And content creators need to also learn to not post their stuff to these platforms.

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[-] thisguy1092@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago
[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago

Block them. If they have something interesting or important to say, just quote it. Don't send them even more traffic and attention.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 days ago

A quote is not a source. The news often misquotes people or takes words out of context.

A tweet should be screenshotted with the original link along with an alternate to xcancel.com.

If the tweet itself has a link or mentions something elsewhere, a link to that source should also be provided.

Sounds like a lot but anything less is misinformation, as far as I'm concerned. So much news and memes have been spread where the subject is taken out of context. Hours or days or years will go by before people come to discover the true meaning of something and by then the impression has already been made.

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Are we trusting a site being run by a known white nationalist/Nazi as a news source?

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Agreed. At least send the link shared to Twitter then, if there's any. A screenshot is better than nothing.

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago
[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 15 points 1 day ago
[-] tiefling 67 points 2 days ago
[-] M1ch431@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd prefer to see people screenshot/crop and also link to an archived version or a frontend. These services (X, Instagram, Meta, etc.) often require you to login for a lot of things (including seeing posts) and also block VPNs.

It definitely is harmful to Lemmy's userbase to click on these links, but I also don't think we should create a walled garden. Users can always choose to use solutions like LibRedirect.

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[-] TherapyGary 32 points 2 days ago

There's always xcancel. Does that not solve most people's concern?

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

It’s compatible with banning original links, and can break later

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

I think it's important to preserve the original source for verifiability.

Perhaps require the main link to be to a mirror or screenshot, but allow the original link in the body of the post.

[-] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Perhaps some automated conversion with a warning when posting that it does this?

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Yes. Ban it. No more traffic to big social media. If something is newsworthy there will be a blog post about it.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 2 days ago

no. but I hope the software increasingly gives power doward. block at every level for the individual. block keywords. follow other uses blocklists. etc. and communities should decide at that level but ideally at the highest level you want no interferance.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It would be nice to have more curation control as a user.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 13 points 2 days ago

Difficult question to answer.

  • things happen on Twitter / Threads / Gab/ etc that are important/worth hearing about , or at least interesting, but
  • I do not wish to send any traffic to these sites
  • and definitely do not wish them making any money from my traffic

In the end I think we should not forbid or block, but be much more careful what we share from those sites. I also think it’s important - very important - to make any competing social media much more interesting to people wanting to be involved and kept up to date. How, I don’t know either but we shouldn’t be too strict on eg Bluesky, rather cooperate or something.

[-] drascus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

So easy to just screenshot or something there is no reason to link there.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sources are important, along with screenshots. Images can be manufactured or manipulated. Posts can be edited.

It's crazy that you're getting downvoted. It seems, people WANT to be fed fake news as long as it aligns with their beliefs.

[-] zoostation@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago
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[-] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Yes and ban Meta too.

[-] krash@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

I'd be more than happy to see all links pointing to xitter banned. FB/Meta would be nice too, but I think it's more important to sending a clear signal on neo-nazi salutes being a red line.

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

If you dont like X posts, you can not open X links. But dont make others unable to view it if they want

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

i respect your opinion, your right to have an opinion, glad you shared your opinion, glad to read opposing opinions, Glad your opinion was not suppressed or censored or shadow banned, that someone having purchased access doesn't drown out your opinion, and others refrained from ganging up to suppress the opposing view.

Sometimes in echo chambers the opposing opinion turns out to be right.

This is not one of those cases. <-- my opinion position

But i really liked that you posted and the opposing opinion was given a fair access to eye balls

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