Really, I think that direct links should’ve been at least heavily discouraged if not banned outright the moment that Vichy Twitter started requiring an active login to follow them.

Now that Musk has dropped the last vestiges of his mask and revealed himself as a nazi, links absolutely should be banned. Nobody here should ever provide that nazi cesspit with even one single click.

The only thing Musk cares about more than imposing his warped vision on the world is money. He needs to be denied both.

Boycotts are one of two real effective ways of killing monopolies. It’s like their kryptonite.

Any boycott against a facist corporate hegemony is a go from me.

Appreciate you and fuck nazis

Honestly, links to xitter were annoying even before since it always tried to force me to create an account any time I clicked one. I’m fine with removing all links to anything Musk or Zuckerberg related.

If this passes I think a good approach is to ban all links to twitter and to alternative frontends, and to ban screenshots etc. showcasing a characteristic look of twitter.
Screenshots of xcancel would be allowed (I think it is unrealistic telling the various themes appart from mastodon etc.), my main hope though is that it leads to people uploading files on lemmy and copying the text into the post/comment body, securing and dissociating the content, and also displacing twitter in search results.
All that with minor or no sourcing, at best a small “from twitter” somewhere.

I am all for it. Ban away.

I’m for the ban of the links but not the screenshots. Screenshots without links will provide the content without giving an easy way to move the traffic there so it would be a positive change without hurting the activity on lemmy. Banning screenshots would add a lot to the modding workload as well which isn’t great either regardless of if it’s the mods taking care of it or the admins.

Allow screenshots. “Important” people post crazy shit there, and it’s nice to keep an eye on them from time to time.

I say allow links because I haven’t noticed them as being too common, so it’s not really a problem? I do avoid clicking on Xitter links though; IIRC they show an annoying login modal, then when you click that off, they only show the post with no context, so they’re not very useful.

I’m quite new here (hello everyone!), but I think banning twitter links is in line with the community’s principles, and it shows a level of solidarity with other communities and instances doing the same.

On a more practical note, I feel like there is a good chance if this movement becomes widespread enough, it will get some news coverage, which could increase awareness and help bring like minded individuals (and trolls probably, but I suspect that’s nothing new) to the instance.

This seems like a largely symbolic gesture though, so I don’t have an issue with screenshots.

Ban the links, allow the screenshots.

Banning screenshots seems like it would both be more difficult, and less relevant to the core issue - ie not giving the chief Nazi any traffic for his propaganda money sink. Especially since there’s over a decade’s worth of twitter screenshots used in memes - would there be a cutoff date Twitter screenshots would be checked for, or would even ancient screenshots be banned? The former seems like a lot of effort for very little payoff, while the latter seems a bit silly.

Another reason for banning Twitter links: If you aren’t logged in, you can’t actually see the discussion, so the link is useless and basically spam advertising to get a Twitter account. I’ve always been really annoyed seeing Twitter links for this reason and the fact that the platform is garbage in general. Duplicating the content in a screenshot or some other way is a way better option.

Fuck any site that requires an account/subscription to view content.

But fuck Elons shitty site the most. Full support for banning links.

I’ve never had a Twitter account so I vote get rid of it.