As a community that supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives, we should not be afraid to organize and act in heightened moments like this. And that's what this is, a small collective action that could (likely not, but maybe) add up to something. Ultimately, doesn't change much here in the day-to-day, outside of formalizing what has happened casually/organically over time as musk bought and performatively tanked twitter to remove it's power as an organizing tool against fascists/oligarchs and Twitter investors, like the Saudis (e.g. see the Arab Spring protests and how Twitter was key to the people in that moment).
So, after considering the active discussion from our community through the comments in this thread, Antiwork will no longer allow links to Twitter/X, at the very least. This rule will formally go into effect in about a week, announced through a stickied post. In addition to that main action, the following related steps will also be taken,
- We will also ban links to Meta owned properties - Facebook, Instagram, Threads (open to suggestion of others if we want to officially make a list of these known, low quality sources and spreaders of misinformation, hate speech, etc through an evolving domain list)
- You may post screenshots IF THE INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE ON ANOTHER VALID PLATFORM, but screenshots must include enough information to fully support a relevant conversation within this community and a VISIBLE time/date stamp for posterity. PLEASE NOTE: If you are caught manipulating content of a screenshot, your post will be removed and you will receive an indefinite ban from this community.
- We will not allow links to any pass through/archive service that potentially feeds traffic back to these services, directly or indirectly. Services like Xcancel/Nitter can give traffic to Twitter/X because they still fetch that content.
For those who contributed that the voices on Twitter and other platforms discussed are too important to lose, I'd say that there may have been a time when that was true, but at this point in time, if you have information that is ONLY sourced on twitter or one of these dying social media platforms, then you very likely have bad information from a person with low character and limited, if any, credibility.
If you support or have any objections, please discuss changes here for the next week. If no major points of discussion that slow us down, we will then implement final changes to apply going forward. I'm looking into potential automod scripts to automatically handle these things for us, open to suggestions if any members of community are mods in other communities that did this well or have experience otherwise.