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.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    what was that song again the slave owners sang? ‘land o’the freeeee’ or sth… it gets funnier the more history they produce.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • SabinStargem@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I hope that a new breed of American can rise from this inferno, who exemplifies what it means to be good people. Whether some of us will be standing proud a decade from now…who knows?

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Slueth@lemmyusa.com
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    2 years ago

    No? You can’t just call for people’s death and leak their info. It’s actually illegal, that’s why they got temp banned.

      • Slueth@lemmyusa.com
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        2 years ago

        You’ve made up something which I’ve never said. Government workers address, cellphone numbers, and email addresses are not publicly available. What does Elon Musk have to do with this?

        • desktop_user [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned
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          2 years ago

          the post did specifically mention elon, repeatedly. Many people do post information that contains their location on their social media, which is generally public. I suppose it also depends on how one defines publicly available as with a permissive enough definition data leaks and targeted advertisment data would be allowed.

      • Slueth@lemmyusa.com
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        2 years ago

        That’s not justification. “If they do it we can do it”. If lose your morals in an effort to “get even”, what makes one any better than the other?

        • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 years ago

          I agree it’s not a justification. I just think it’s worth pointing out the hypocrisy when Elon has been platforming Chaya Raichik, who does the exact same thing (to private citizens who have done nothing wrong, mind you).

    • whatsgrowingon@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I finally made the jump to here today. I have no idea what federated means but I had have it with Reddit. It’s all bots and reposts.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
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        2 years ago

        There is a bunch of different servers and anyone can start their own server if they want to.

        Server admins can decide with which servers they exchange information or which they block.

        So if one server goes down or the admins there go rogue powertripping, the rest can remain unaffected.

        For the most part your user experience is pretty much the same like on reddit, with a better culture here. But if something really rubs you the wrong way, you can switch your home server, or make your own instead of only being able to leave.

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just checking: John Brown did nothing wrong, slave owners should be killed.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, those who disagree will be shot in the right leg. The exception being those who think a good Nazi is one they want to torture for fun.

  • GRIMMnM@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      We should be going back on there and proselytizing (and on this end, welcoming new users with h links to documentation etc.) btw if you’re new I recommend checking out the various mobile clients. I personally use lemmy sync because of muscle memory from years of using it on reddit, but there’s a number of open source ones too.

      • GRIMMnM@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I agree. I do worry about the barrier to entry for some people. I know it gets brought up a lot here but I think it’s a valid criticism.

        Looking into apps was actually the first thing I did after making an account!

        I used Sync for a few minutes, but then settled on Voyager because they don’t collect any data.

        Voyager is very nice btw.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Non-corporate owned media is going to be the only way to escape the continued enshittification of the internet.

    • MintyAnt@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Welcome! Bring your content, enjoy the friendly people :)

      And form a positive opinion on Linux man. Just any opinion. They’ll slaughter you without one it’s rough out there

    • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      2 years ago

      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.

        • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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          2 years ago

          Without some kind of mechanism to cap off growth, I think any social media service will end up like Facebook. As for the concept of a fediverse here, I think certain instances will definitely turn to shit, but it’s up to the individual instance rules to figure that out.

  • GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        If somebody keeps killing your characters in Minecraft, then how is it bad to threaten them back? In Minecraft.

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        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.

    • Brumefey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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 ?

      • GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        Reddit is still awful, it just drives me nuts to see lefties think theyre the secret resistance on an evil conservative site when they’re actually the brownshirts who are allowed by the admins (usually- this one went over the line) to do crimes without consequence.

  • index@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    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.