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.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 小时前

    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…

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
    311·
    7 小时前

    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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      141·
      5 小时前

      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.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 小时前

      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.”

    • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
      20·
      8 小时前

      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.

  • Sho@lemmy.world
    211·
    9 小时前

    Fuck…ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. 🖕

    • whatsgrowingon@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      5 小时前

      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
        2·
        4 小时前

        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.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    172·
    13 小时前

    Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.

    That ship sailed years ago.

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
        8·
        7 小时前

        Yeah… was the whole Ellen pao thing 10 years ago? There’s been dreams every time a sub is banned for ages.

        I don’t blame them for backing the jailbait sub, that was creepy as fuck.

      • ultranaut@lemmy.world
        18·
        10 小时前

        Looks like a bunch of incels being pathetic together. If that’s where you’re finding your masculinity you should probably rethink your entire life from the ground up because you took a wrong turn somewhere.

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    9 小时前

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

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 小时前

      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.

  • Bonifratz@lemm.ee
    157·
    14 小时前

    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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    260·
    15 小时前

    Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.

    I think that happened a long time ago

      • tryagain
        40·
        14 小时前

        like, what does he think we’re all doing here in the first place

      • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
        22·
        13 小时前

        Back before they went “independent,” kind of. When Sears sent legal threats to take down a post exploiting an xss bug to make a joke about grilling babies, reddit had a big public discussion on it, and ultimately left the post up

  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
    131·
    10 小时前

    Reddit was on its way out a couple years ago. i got banned for life for asking a question about violence. Eefff them.