Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
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Good. Any site that requires you to log in to view shouldn't be linked by anyone anywhere.
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Good on them. X and Meta need to be treated as the social media lepers they are.
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Until Reddit changes this policy in a week, and due to the new moderator policies, subreddits will not be able to effectively stage a protest.
There is a fix to what X and Meta tried to pull this week: We must decentralize Social Media.
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This is a good start. Now if reddit can just ban links to reddit, we'll have all the major corporate-controlled social media offenders taken care of.
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as a private company Reddit isn't bound by the 1st amendment, but still here demonstrates better understanding of the 1st amendment than most of the right-wing/anti-woke talking points on this.
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Disabled my Twitter account, so I can't see any links to it anyway. Have long ago deleted my Meta accounts. I don't visit Reddit much anymore either, so this doesn't affect me much. If you're not on Bluesky, your social posts don't reach me. I'm much happier now a days.
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They've already removed the link to X at the bottom of an article's page. So that's a start at least.
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And what about Ars' rules? Is it going to be OK to simply call someone a nazi, or do we have to refer to them as "someone who publicly and unapologetically uses the nazi salute?"
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There are Twitter alternatives that don't stink of Nazi. Perhaps this will hasten their ascent.
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For me at least, Bluesky has hit critical mass and now completely satisfies my 'current events' requirements.
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Meanwhile Ars will continue to publish glowing articles about Nazi Elon Musk’s companies. Most notably a certain space company. And many fans will just ignore that people are willingly working for this literal Nazi. Let’s not forget that every success his companies have just increases his power and influence. That wouldn’t happen without his employees. Employees that are working for Nazi Elon Musk.
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And? We're talking about subreddits here, not news organizations or something; it's not like a subreddit banning this or that is going to somehow magically stop the people from learning about news from a billion other sources or whatever, now innit?
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There's no benefit to being told what someone said on Twitter.
And Musk is a fucking Nazi. He did a Nazi salute, twice, in front of everyone. There is no reason whatsoever to use his garbage site.
People not wanting to use his site are not the crazy ones. The ones claiming you have to use the white supremacist site are.
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Reddit looked at what revenue is generated by ads from these kinds of links, saw it was next to zero, and decided the peasants can play with their toys for now.
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You seem awfully concerned about us hearing what's going on in the white supremacist echo chamber.
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You're still driving traffic to it, and thereby supporting it though. Personally I'd prefer not to do that.
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As opposed to Twitter, where you get Musk's white supremacist view, reinforcing your preexisting bias?
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Nah because it benefits them. Most of the suggestions involve directly uploading content to Reddit, either as a video taken from the Tweet or a screenshot of the tweet.
It's the same reason why Musk has made the algorithm for Twitter heavily down-weight posts with external links including intentional delays in their link shortener/analytics as users are more likely to "give up" after only a few hundred milliseconds of waiting for something to load.
Reddit doesn't mind because it gives them more "first party content" rather than linking away.
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We implemented this today on the local city subreddit I help mod. The hard part is the local city government and various agencies (such as the police department) are still using Twitter as a primary communications feed, but we solved that by saying "submission should be a screenshot of the tweet, post the Twitter link in the comments so the mods can verify the post is authentic". Not perfect but should still at least drive a lot less traffic over there than allowing submission of the links directly.
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same here. it was basically a step change post-election and it's been getting more and more like classic twitter over the past few weeks. even saw a dril post go viral
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But if you are a piece of shit you probably use X. I prefer not to mingle with that crowd. You do you.
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Sure. But how long before certain people who own social media platforms who happen to be in influential government positions start getting cranky that other sites are disallowing links to their platforms and start pushing to make said bans - not illegal, no - but strongly discouraged?
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