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.
The resistance will be federated.
spez being a spineless fuckboy? Nooooo.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
I think that happened a long time ago
i was gonna ask if op was new to the internet.
like, what does he think we’re all doing here in the first place
Was it really ever a safe place for free speech?
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
The simple fact that there is an unnecessary amount of control given to a single person over the information and communication you share and consume automatically makes the environment this person controls an unsafe environment for free speech. Yes, there should be moderation, but it should by moderation by the community, not the person on the top of the unnecessary hierarchy. Centralized social media only serves its owners, it exists for no other reason.
We’re overdue for Rexit, round 2.
Nazi boogaloo
If you’re still there, advertise us!
Pick an instance without “lemmy” in the name. Say something like: “Want to check out the fediverse? Go to discuss.online!”
Huffman isn’t bending the knee. He’s been deep throating Musk for quite a while. Even before the whole API thing, it was known the he saw Musk as a great role model.
Yeah, Reddit hasn’t been safe in a long time. If people are only just now realizing that, it’s because they’ve been extremely sheltered from… Well… Gestures vaguely at everything
obligatory ‘fuck spez’. also reddit was compromised a long time ago.
Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.
Embrace our superior locally raised [email protected], or the more inclusive and not twitter-centric [email protected]
As long as it doesn’t share the same trash mods from reddit, sure!
It’s not when they were calling for interns of government agencies death. What’s scary is no one here is looking for context.
I’ve been out of the loop with this one. Please, by all means, give some context. Do I read you right that info about elons minions was doxed?
You are not asking in good faith given you chose to address the victims as “elons minions” and not as real people.
I can think they are his minions who are helping him carry out a coup and still condem death threat against them. Why does everything have to be back and white these days?
Anyhow, you are not obligated to answer me. I’ll read into it or won’t, untill then I just won’t have any opinion on this matter.
Edit: And you can be somebody’s minion (as in tool used to aquire your goals) and still be a human. I don’t see that as mutually exclusive.
Plenty of people in this comment section aren’t condemning death threats and are advocating to kill them.
Biases are subtle and the way you address those mentioned leads me to believe you’d completely ignore any information given. Your hesitation to self-inform does the same. Have a nice one.
Ironically most of those 3 million are the “right” color to them. Can’t take the heat once you start burning down the kitchen I guess.
Was that even a sub critical of Elon? I haven’t been on Reddit since the API migration, but I remember that sub just being a joke response to BlackPeopleTwitter, which mostly just reposted funny tweets.
Several individuals on that sub were making death threats towards individuals in government. The mods either supported or ignored them, so a temp ban needed to be put in place.
Is Elon Musk actually an “individual in our government” though?
It’s effectively “Liberal people twitter” with all posts being about politics, especially discussing Musk and Trump. I think it changed around the Covid lockdowns.
Fuck…ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. 🖕
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.
Glad you’re here, hope you stick around and help make it better and better.
Welcome!
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.
Just checking: John Brown did nothing wrong, slave owners should be killed.
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.
No? You can’t just call for people’s death and leak their info. It’s actually illegal, that’s why they got temp banned.
We cant just vote and protest. We have to kill a few of them or they will just laugh. All our right were won in blood and if we arent willing to kill them when they try to step out of line, we will be left with nothing.
since when has distributing publicly available information (where Elon currently is located) been illegal?
You’ve made up something which I’ve never said. Government workers address, cellphone numbers, and email addresses are not publicly available. What does Elon Musk have to do with this?
the post did specifically mention elon, repeatedly. Many people do post information that contains their location on their social media, which is generally public. I suppose it also depends on how one defines publicly available as with a permissive enough definition data leaks and targeted advertisment data would be allowed.
You can do it on twitter.
The right has been doing this for like a decade now.
That’s not justification. “If they do it we can do it”. If lose your morals in an effort to “get even”, what makes one any better than the other?
I agree it’s not a justification. I just think it’s worth pointing out the hypocrisy when Elon has been platforming Chaya Raichik, who does the exact same thing (to private citizens who have done nothing wrong, mind you).
What? But I was told that elon is “not the fed” and nothing would happen to reddit who would fight tooth and nail for everyone’s rights.
Gasp, shock, and amazement.
What the fuck how is this happening without anyone in the US really doing anything
Bread and circuses. As long as they aren’t starving, and the forth estate only covers media circuses. Not actually reporting. They’ll never know.
Well that and the fact that plenty of folks arent even in the same greater region as DC meaning actions are somewhat limited, hell im 8 hours out from my States Capitol and DC is on the other side of a fucking continent.
Based on the people I interact with daily basically no one realizes this is happening. Outside of the IT department no one realizes or cares. I asked how we were doing to deal with tariffs on electronics we regularly used a while back and was quietly told that was a political statement and shouldn’t be brought up.
Now we have no plan and I’m too bummed to be smug about it.
Again, this is just my anecdotal view.
I had this conversation over Christmas with my family. As horrible as everything public is, I’m arguably more worried about how the cyber world. Nothing is private, the info is controlled, and the masses are far too ignorant to have any idea how fucked everything is. I mentioned something about how tik Tok is just a data collection so for China, and I got, “whatever, they already have all of my information”. I can’t then go on to explain why everything is so bad, because nobody knows anything about computers, and the newest generation coming up is arguably worse than boomers, because they’ve only ever know smartphones and tablets.
Half the IT department i work in built new gaming rigs ahead of time. The other half is non-gamers and republicans.
Id be relieved my work hardware is newer and good for a few years, if i wasn’t a federal employee waiting to be fucked over.
Glad to hear you won’t have to upgrade. Hopefully you can stay under the radar, but I definitely get this would be a rough time to be working for the fed. I sincerely wish you luck (and patience)
Ahh the classic US move, pretend the problem doesn’t exist until it causes massive problems, then blame someone else.
Funny, that’s the exact same vibe I always get from street interviews in Russia.
It’s the same exact playbook, so makes sense
Well you may be jailed or killed if you say the problem does exist. In the US they choose to ignore the problem on their own free will.
It’s been working out for the rich and powerful so far. Why wouldn’t it work for us too?
FAFO
If I didn’t have kids to keep safe, maybe, but I can’t take the risk as is.
Eventually, someone will Luigi Elon. Absolutely no one will care.
Hey now… for about 10 minutes a bunch of people with names like Groyper1488, IdFuckMyTeslaIfItHadATailpipe and BitcoinKing will be very upset.
They won’t care that he has been luigied, they will care about their shytocurrency.
Hence why the period of mourning would only be 10 minutes.
I’d care! I’d throw a massive fucking party.
Spez desperately wants a place on the big bois table
ikr I don’t think spez “bent the knee” so much as he was probably pestering Elon night and day asking how he could help.
“Why did he put those other 22 yr old boys in govt and not meeeeee??”
Could there be a better example of why not to remain on Reddit?
The United States of America has become comfortable with bending the knee to petulant man-children. What an utterly pathetic time to be an American. Truly embarrassing.
I hope that a new breed of American can rise from this inferno, who exemplifies what it means to be good people. Whether some of us will be standing proud a decade from now…who knows?
