Honestly the fact how bad user experience X is for unregistered users should be reason enough to ban links to X.
The experience for unregistered users on Reddit is almost as bad as twitter, I don't think Reddit cares about that.
What a coincidence, I've been banning all links to reddit. This is working out great.
Maybe they will leave oligarch owned social media next.
I mean I doubt it. After all, the next-best thing is Lemmy.
Are any Lemmy instances banning x links? I haven't heard of it, but would be in favor of it.
We're currently conducting a vote on dbzer0 for it via a pinned post.
Last I checked the count was overwhelmingly for banning links to X.
LMAO well said. It sucks that we really don't have a decent alternative to reddit. I miss my niche subs.
Digg should have never released V4. It was reddit's only competition, but now it's a soulless, corporate curated media platform. You can't even comment anymore.
We're spending so much media attention on this Nazi salute that I'm wondering if it may have been the intent all along - tie up media coverage while the Trump administration pushes harmful legislation through under the radar.
The thing is, Trump's harmful policies are in fact Nazi policies. We need to be spending more attention on the fact that there are now Nazis in the White House.
Boycotting Twitter is a good idea for many reasons. However this kind of blanket link ban will lead to more informational segregation quickly. This has already happened in many ways since the beginning of the war on Ukraine. Linking to Telegram or any Russian website is no longer allowed in many forums, e. g. Reddit. That has made finding original sources and verifying information much more difficult.
Take links to videos for example. Reddit is full of videos copied from YouTube, Telegram, TikTok, etc. without attributing the original source. The World Wide Web was supposed to link information together into a network, where you can follow up on origins snd details. Nowadays it has turned into a series of copy & paste silos, enabling the most extreme echo chambers.
I think segregation is the long term plan.
Divide and conquer.
Knowledge is power; Wikipedia is next on the hit list.
I doubt there’s a plan behind this.
Social media wasn’t the primary driver behind the Arab spring. The economic issues were the trigger. People couldn’t afford to buy food. Lack of food will topple any government. Media control only gets one so far.
On the Internet the dominant websites can change quickly. Being banned from Twitter enabled Trump‘s Truth Social. Buying Twitter gave Elon Musk a giant soap box. However new soapboxes are constructed all the time and some succeed.
And they'll eventually not do it considering they are still debating about it. Just do it.
Some have already banned, some are in the process of voting.
So that's what it takes before people think of leaving twitter.
They have concepts of leaving, but addiction is a bitch. Most will stay.
Garbage blocking garbage. Fuck Reddit
11 year old account banned for saying that if there was a revolution the rich wouldn't have the resources to protect themselves
No previous infractions
I've banned new Teslas from going before me at stop signs, passing me on the freeway, and not being cut off by me within inches in the left lane at any opportunity I can take.
Edit: was really expecting greater than zero downvotes for the last sentence. Thanks for letting me talk shit and knowing I'm not trying to endanger any safety for real
I choose to believe this is brilliant trolling
I can't believe it's taken this long. I get disappointed when microblogmeme jpegs don't have 2 @ symbols in them.
I wish I could stop using WhatsApp but that's where all the people without phone plans are. I wish I could stop using Telegram but that's where all the drug dealers are. I wish Reddit would ban X links, but that's where all the sassy hot takes are.
You can of course, you're just chosing to support zuck, musk and durov because it's slightly inconvenient for you not to
Of those three, telegram isn't as bad though. They're insecure and share data with law enforcement etc, but they're not as active and enthusiastic collaborators with Trump
My point is the network effect. That's where people are and I have no power to change that, so that is where I must sometimes be. If it was up to me, things would be wonderful and open source. But I sometimes have to deal with — ugh... humans.
It is up to you though. I get that you can make the choice that supporting zuck and musk is an OK price to pay to not have to do a little more work or be the annoying person saying "I only have Signal" but it is very much your choice. You could choose differently, if your priorities were different
India alone is about 2 billion people who all use WhatsApp. I cannot change the world. I hear you and would love for us all to switch to federated or — at least — decentralized things, or whatever. I will advocate for it, but like banks and shit are using WhatsApp. It is legitimized here even more than MMS. I can't stop it. And yes, I have made the choice to communicate with humans rather than using Signal.
I did that for a while. The thing that happened was that I got left out of stuff, because people didn't always think of informing me separately, when it was already discussed in the already existing groups. Sometimes they would inform me after all the planning was done what the plans were, sometimes I got a last minute info or no info at all. So the choice was between a significant loss in my social life and using the same service as everyone else in my social circles.
Lemmy should do the same.
eh, spez is probably going to step in and force them back to require Twitter or something. he wouldn't want to be pushed out of the oligarchy.
fuck spez in advance
I don’t like the guy either way, but I still can’t believe this is actually real. Are there any videos that show unequivocally that this is a salute and not just a meme made out of a poorly timed photo? All I’ve seen so far are just still shots, which leads me to suspect there’s a spin on this.
Edit: I should also add I avoid X as much as possible anyway.
That’s just laziness on your part. It’s VERY easy to find video clips of the two times he did it.
Paywalled link
Just ban it!
Ban links to reddit please. Fucking cesspool. Ban the self-righteous know-it-all users too.
Are there other sites to which links are banned? I don't really like that policy for anything no matter how nefarious. Unless it's malware or a liability and going to land the visitor in prison.
Links to Russian websites and telegram are banned on most of not all subreddits.
Porn sites without strict CSAM, malicious injection or spam protection, many individual subs ban extreme right-wing sites, Fox News or opposite left-etc
Please do
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