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

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• Pherenike@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So surprised! /s

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• brysmi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Record of OPs 18.5 years on Reddit

  I guess time to bail for good?

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  • ssladam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Jan 16, 2008. Got me beat by a bit. Beat you to Lemmy though, so I guess I’ve got that going for me.

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    • brysmi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We have to take solace where we can

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Most people are too ignorant, indifferent, and/or stupid to make that move.

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    • brysmi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Honestly, I haven’t actually deleted anything totally. But I probably still have a Friendster account.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Probably, yeah. I made new accounts often but my oldest would probably have been 2010. But I’ve given up once I found lemmy aside from occasionally going back to help people come over when I know reddit has further agitated its existing base.

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• itisileclerk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This (among other reasons) is why I left Reddit, deleted my account and move to Lemmy.world.

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• Polderviking@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Remember that interview with Don Lemon where Musk got heated over not wanting censorship? Mee too.

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  • HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Musk what a knob

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• xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fucking hell I didn’t know that! He just believes what suits him

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• imrighthere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I didn’t get banned, I just can’t login anymore. All browsers confirm username and pass are correct, but reddit says they are not. They really don’t like critics. No calls for violence, veiled or otherwise. The wheels are coming off that country quickly.

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  • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I got banned for saying we should punch Nazis, and calling Musk a cunt.

    I regret nothing.

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    • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you for your service

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• Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Elon acts like a dude with a very tiny penis.

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  • RedPostItNote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Like?

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    • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ya. Who are we kidding. Bros got a tiny pecker.

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Welcome, reddit refugees. You won’t miss Spezzit.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh good job Musk! Bring them all here! Right into our icy flippers!

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  • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Seems to be working.

    I see many new ex redditors here like me

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    • Zendegy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ✋

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Flippers because we’re penguins because we love Linux?

    We’re not going to live down that time we held a guy at gunpoint in Grand Theft Auto to help him consider switching to Linux, are we?

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No commrade senior citizen most equal of all pimball_wizard, we are not :'[

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Elon is being a damn snowflake.

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• SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My permaban came from a post about DOGE. They deleted the comment, permabanned me, and wouldn’t let me see what I even commented. They said it was “encouraging violence” but hell no, I was making sure not to say anything like that. Wonder if I just insulted Elon and reddit decided to finally get rid of me.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ya. The ol’ “encouraging violence”. Pretty much the same thing as “national security”

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• conicalscientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?

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• porpoiserecords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Image

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• KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I just got a temporary ban for cussing out Elon in one of the antifacist subreddits, felt good. I’m wearing this ban as a badge of honor.

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  • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I got perma banned for calling a magat regarded and telling them to stop eating crayons, under rule 1:

    Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

    lol

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      regarded (sic)

      Surely you can insult musk without being ableist though? There’s 500,000 words in the English language. Choose one that doesn’t drag innocent people into it.

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• Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The day I saw Trump win I knew Reddit was going on the chopping block but even then, it’s been going downhill since 2016 with bots, bot mods, and language policing. Merely saying ‘fucking Luigi’ is a ban worthy offense and it’s absolutely asinine.

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  • 0tan0d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The fucking bots are insane, they don’t even try to hide over there.

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    • Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I will never forget 2013 when Putin refused to sign an international agreement saying we won’t use AI in weapons and the rest of the world was on board with it.

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  • Burninator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I received two platform bans in the last few months over the most asinine things. Hadn’t gotten a single one in nearly 15 years up until now.

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    • Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I used to have three accounts to manage groupings of subreddits until I was banned for racism for asking lib women to treat white dudes better so an Arab spring like incident doesn’t happen before Trump won.

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have been less active there since the API fracas, and since they announced they’re policing upvotes? I haven’t been active at all.

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    • Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For real. Transparency makes this work much better than otherwise.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Truth is this place will fall too. Unless someone can figure out how to protect against these take overs. The rich control the Internet just as easy as they control everything else

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    • Mallspice@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Could last a while with unity but yes.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The enshittification of Reddit continues on.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So the Twitter boss gets to order around the Reddit boss? Typical Stevie… No spine

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• tacocatgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fucking crybaby

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• riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  wHY Do pEoPlE HaTe Me!?

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Free Speech^TM^

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• ravior@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Kinda pisses me off that this joke of a clown has this much a authority.

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  • BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t let it piss you off. Just don’t participate. Leave Reddit. Leave FB. Delete, delete, delete.

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    • LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It still impacts a lot of people because we here are in the minority and we can’t save them all. So it’s absolutely valid to have this piss you off.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Now we just need to make more Lemmy posts that aren’t about them.

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• kalimbra@l.hostux.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Musk, the great champion of freedom of speech!

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• Binx85@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It looks like this is the ex-redditor handshake thread. Did anyone start here without coming from Reddit? I heard about Lemme during the IPO fallout but didn’t pursue it until the mass shadow ban rollout.

  I’m also still jumping back and forth, but that’s only because the bog content creators for hobby stuff are still on Reddit. Once they migrate, I’ll likely delete my account.

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  • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mass edit your comments while you still can. I got halfway through my history before being blocked.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that just about everyone on Lemmy originally came from reddit.

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  • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m here because I got shadowbannned for some unspecified reason.

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• Ironfist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People need to stop using reddit.

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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Friends don’t let friends visit Reddit.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I deleted my last alt account last week. I’m done.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The same mods who arbitrarily ban users while without showing what rule they claim was broken?

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  • p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And who refuse to explain even when asked?

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If they don’t block you for asking

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• SousLaPlage@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This was finally the point that made me come here

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  • KinkyIconoclast@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Same here, friend. This is my first post. Fuck Musk, and fuck Spez.

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    • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Welcome to you both! I’m also new here and enjoying it so far!

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  One of the most recurring things I see here is the mods are at wits end with Reddit Admins again. They’ve given up a lot of leverage in doing another blackout, but they really need to ask themselves what they have to gain being unpaid volunteers for a website clearly working against its users.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just a reminder that if Musk can do this with no ownership of reddit, you know the CCP through Tencent has been doing it for ages.

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  • chickennuggies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Shame that the “DAE CHINA BAD” being shoehorned into unrelated conversations has made its way over to Lemmy now.

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    • Fluke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The Chinese government is an authoritarian shitshow. This is objective fact.

      Before you even try it, don’t “what about” and point to another authoritarian shithole like that makes China’s continuing abuses ok. It’s not, and there is no defending it. To attempt to do so is excusing it, and merely shows your ignorance and/or complicity.

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  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To quote one of the greats, “The Chinaman is not the issue here, dude.”

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a good thing I was naming specific organizations instead of a racist dog whistle.

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• DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m not and never was banned from there, however I left on my own accord after this happened, as if all their other enshittification didn’t reinforce that decision.

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• TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The mods on Reddit are a joke anyway. But still, pretty messed up.

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