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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.
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.
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.
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
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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%.
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
Not to be that guy, but be the change you want to see in the world.
I've had some troubles getting soulslikes communities going on here and have gone from three separate communities at most cracking around 100 monthly users, I think, to more than a 1000. It takes some time and effort, but you'll get there if you're consistent and passionate about it. Plus there might already be existing communities that you can build off of.
Just some unsolicited "advice", I guess
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Yeah, there are some things lacking here, but it's only gotten better and better since I joined.
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Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
That ship sailed years ago.
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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.
In November he straight up posted names of federal employees that he decided he didn't like. But now doing the same thing to his little rat fucks has him calling it 'illegal'
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.
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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."
My 13 year old Reddit account with 250k comment karma was permabanned without warning for saying "It's OK to punch Nazis".
Reddit is, and has always been, run by Nazi sympathizers.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
I think that happened a long time ago
The simple fact that there is an unnecessary amount of control given to a single person over the information and communication you share and consume automatically makes the environment this person controls an unsafe environment for free speech. Yes, there should be moderation, but it should by moderation by the community, not the person on the top of the unnecessary hierarchy. Centralized social media only serves its owners, it exists for no other reason.
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The resistance will be federated.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech
Friendly reminder of when spez, many years ago, literally just changed a user's comment, and then went on to not be immediately fired over this insane breach of everything to do with customer relations.
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I'm gonna have to check on fuckcara and cyberstuck
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.
Do you think the up and coming bluesky might end up like that
Fuck spez
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