Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which one, (fuck) spez or the Nazi saluting trust fund baby?

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That is a very good question.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess even r/whitepeopletwitter wasn’t white enough for Musk.

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  • Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So much so that he’s a goddamn puddle at this point

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Reddit died June 2023

  I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve never considered that a limitation.

      You only need one other person an addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

      If anything, on Lemmy I’m finding I actually get replies, because I didn’t among a hundred others.

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    • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to “Active” most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to “Top Six Hours”).

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 112h top posts, has 147 comments

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    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.

      Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.

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    • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You obviously weren’t here for the guy who didn’t want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tbh I’ve decided I can live with less and less of this. I’ll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn’t pickup or even dies, meh

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    • merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This post has 278 comments

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Legitimately who cares though? You‘re not in it for the money with Reddit either.

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  • AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It’ll take years.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Some people are just into that kind of thing.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      (Rest) She never
      was this good in
      bed even when
      she was sleeping
      now she’s just so
      perfect I’ve nev-
      -ver been quite so
      fucking deep in

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  • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I feel like as an A’s fan. The same thing happened to Reddit. Owners turned it into a shit hole.

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    • King3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As a fellow A’s fan I completely agree this analogy.

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  • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there’s some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.

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    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Luigi

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  • iLStrix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because they have a monopoly on old and especially niche knowledge/communities (also new niche knowledge/communities). As much as I hate it, that’s why I personally still have to use reddit sometimes.

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• SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s more or less why I left reddit came to lemmy.

  This is in fact my very first post here. :)

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  • MaxB@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same. Just created my account

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    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think we chose right.

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    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Welcome fellow former redditor!

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been here for about a month, switching bettween this and Reddit, while still mostly using Reddit. This made me leave Reddit completely. This and getting banned for 3 days for upvoting a comment was the final straw.

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    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Similar final straw for me.

      I had wrote an anti putin thing under a post of Selenskyj where he stated putin will soon die, I confirmed that I hope so too and got like 400 upvotes and a hour or two later got deleted and a 3 day ban.

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    • samuelazers@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In over 2 decades of internet, i can safely say banning users for upvoting things is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen a discussion board ever do. Just remove upvotes at this point and have the feed curated by Lord Muskrat.

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  • samuelazers@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unlike others, i didn’t get banned from Reddit, i just wanted to get a head-start learning this site, because Reddit is on the way to become X2.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome, I am a former redditor myself.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I got here because they killed Apollo 🫶🏻 never forget

    I use Voyager now for lemmy

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  • FreeHat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m brand new as well and hopeful but wow the smaller forums here need some love. The topic variety is small to the point where maybe straight up bot cloning subreddits here where posts on Reddit just get reposted to their Lemmy equivalent to kick start refugees feeling at home. Plus if there’s basically cross platform discussion posts it gives ground for users of existing subreddits to migrate.

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Rome wasn’t built in a day. Think of it of getting in at the ground floor, where we’ll create topics and in-jokes that will be repeated ad nauseum for decades!

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have yet to come across a repost community here that actually gets any comments on the posts. I wound up unsubscribing from all of them because they just clog up my feed.

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  • MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome, fellow ex redditor.

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    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks :)

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  • Idbuythatforadollar@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    same!

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    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Welcome for both of us! :)

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome to the party!

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  • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome friend!!

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  • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, Reddit pushed me this way too, but I’m much happier. Welcome!

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  • thickertoofan@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome here!

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• r0x0r@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is this the “free speech” everyone in 'Murica is talking 'bout?

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  • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Musk bought twitter because he wanted free speech…

    Ironic huh

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.

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    • merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      He did. Free speech for bigots that is.

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    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, wanted to own a mechanism of free speech so he could control it.

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    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not ironic when you realize it’s this but literally. He wants to own all speech.

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  • iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Honestly, say something useful or keep it to yourself, OK? These lil ‘gotcha’ comments do nothing but take up space and make you feel a misplaced sense of having done something (when you’ve in fact, done nothing).

    Stuff like this comment, the mango Mussolini comments, the evil Cheeto comments, it all just fucking does nothing while still making people feel like they’re being transgressive. You’re not. It diverts energy from doing/talking about stuff that affects real change.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

  Just call them out

  Call them often

  Call them out every day

  Never stop calling them out … you’ll know they’re listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

  Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

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• MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.

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  • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hmm, sounds like your freedom of speech was suppressed, at least according to the standard Elon espouses. I wonder why he now feels so strongly about doing the opposite thing from what he wanted before. 🤔

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    • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I truly can’t imagine what that could be, he’s always been so stable and trustworthy before.

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  • tane@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lol I got actually hwid banned for refusal to stop Luigi posting

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    • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, they seem super sensitive about anything Luigi

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  • brysmi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To Hell, you say?

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  • Necroscope0@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I got mine for hoping Elon’s penis pump would explode and him to burn to death from the dick up.

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    • RedPostItNote@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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  • hardypart@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How’s an IP ban even supposed to work when you get a new IP regularly?

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You forgot “to hell” in your last sentence 🧐

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• DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  One more reason to use Lemmy.

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  • themobrules@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This story compelled me to finally commit to using Lemmy.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy

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• pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I look at Reddit like I look at Facebook. Both are trash and have outlived their use. If you have a profile on either one, delete it or at least delete the app.

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.

  After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.

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• pixelpure@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reddit has been compromised by the oligarchs.

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• Charlxmagne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Free speech absolutist” 🤣🤣🤣

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• Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That…should be intolerable for redditors, you’d think this would finally make them leave.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Personally I couldn‘t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. You‘re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah the “free speech absolutist” strikes again.

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Add “brown nosing spinless wimp” to the list of acceptable descriptors of Spez

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My God they’ve pissed off Hitler

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• Glitchvid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Reddit is becoming such a shit hole anyway, the site barely functions on mobile browser now, half the time it has API errors or fails to load.

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• SirFasy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No shit, that explains Reddits noticeable change in moderation after the election.

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• Smerk@lemmy.studio ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There has been unwarranted censorship at a scale I’ve never seen on Reddit I thought it was the last bastion of free speech

  While actual hate speech and seriously harmful content goes completely unchecked

  It is unfortunate

  Steve Bannon isnt welcome on Colorado. Phil Long Auditorium shouldnt host nazis. I was banned for saying as much from Fucking Reddit of all places Pointing out that there have been fires at dealerships lately does not equate to harrasment Phil Long Auditorium should not host the Rally period. Their casual attitude towards white supremacy is unacceptable and while i dont believe they should necessarily be burnt to the ground, there are better places to buy automobiles They deserve to be boycotted And i will punch a nazi mod in the face 100% of the time

  Edit: UPDATE 2 PROTESTORS WERE RAN OVER BY TWO DIFFERENT HATE RALLY ATTENDEE"S CARS !!! NAZIS ARE VIOLENT PIECES OF SHIT

  Told you so r/Coloradosprings

  Fuck yall

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• BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why is anyone on Reddit??

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• philohmath@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been seeing the steady increase in posts and complaints about Reddit banning folks for political speech for the last couple of months and I finally have had enough so here I am. Been on there for 14 years… Byeeeee.

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• heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Moderators are outraged but will forget that in a few days and won’t leave reddit anyway.

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• ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s why I’m here. Whatever musk touches turns to shit.

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• Literocola@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I got a ban for saying “even the sharks don’t want to eat Russians” on an article about a Russian tourist getting attacked by a shark.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i feel like musk is going to demand reddit get rid of old reddit next because it’s too nice a layout

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• ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reddit is dead to me and I was with it since near the beginning.

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• WickedPissah@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love Reddit so much, but the censorship is bullshit! I quit the entire META platform months ago, lost a lot of contacts but fuck Zuckerberg!

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• xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.

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• PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I left moderating some significant subs back when with the 3rd party app protests, but did return to Reddit after that to start my own.

  But now, since early December I’m done-done.

  My account has been deleted (as with Discord), and I’m all in on the fediverse. Seeing the proposed changes (the concept of a paid sub that Spez is so adament about?), I just had enough. And the more news of Reddit I see, the happier I am I did.

  Most of my daily time now is spent on Mastodon, but I am here every few days trying to share a post or two.

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