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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.

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[–] [email protected] 333 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

I think that happened a long time ago

[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i was gonna ask if op was new to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago

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

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[–] GRIMMnM 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

A reddit thread about this is what actually led me here. Reddit has been on my shit list for a while, it's cool this place exists.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Non-corporate owned media is going to be the only way to escape the continued enshittification of the internet.

[–] MintyAnt 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Welcome! Bring your content, enjoy the friendly people :)

And form a positive opinion on Linux man. Just any opinion. They'll slaughter you without one it's rough out there

[–] GRIMMnM 10 points 4 days ago

I love my Steam Deck.

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[–] Allonzee 258 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

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

That ship sailed years ago.

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[–] Syltti 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] LovableSidekick 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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

Woah, looks like a post from a few years ago must have gotten stuck behind a file cabinet!

[–] Pollo_Jack 1 points 2 days ago

Initially they banned chapotraphouse for no reason then when latestagecapitalism got taken over by conservatives it was officially dead for me.

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sploosh 66 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Was that while he was a moderator of /r/jailbait?

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[–] AtariDump 127 points 5 days ago (9 children)
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[–] Majorllama 92 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

Lol.

Lmao even.

Reddit has never been a safe place for free speech.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yes it has, but it was like 15 years ago and absolutely wild

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Try 18 years ago, when Aaron Swartz left.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened

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[–] sachasage 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (6 children)

When people come here from reddit remember to highlight them on decentralization and open source software. People need to understand why certain platforms and services are better not simply switch side.

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[–] Clbull 53 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

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...

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What the fuck how is this happening without anyone in the US really doing anything

[–] sc2pirate 130 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Ahh the classic US move, pretend the problem doesn't exist until it causes massive problems, then blame someone else.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago

The resistance will be federated.

[–] DirkMcCallahan 82 points 5 days ago (3 children)

We're overdue for Rexit, round 2.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago

Nazi boogaloo

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[–] DarkFuture 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] rational_lib 49 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

Most have come back, /drugs for example. The admins said its a glitch, I can't beleive that and glad I'm here. I have no doubt reddit will get on its knees in the name of $$$$$$.

[–] Saltycracker 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do people not expect this of Reddit by now

[–] zildjiandrummer1 28 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago

spez being a spineless fuckboy? Nooooo.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (14 children)

Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Embrace our superior locally raised [email protected], or the more inclusive and not twitter-centric [email protected]

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[–] Goodmorningsunshine 43 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (16 children)

I missed reddit simply because I can't find the fucking porn on Lemmy (though I realize now that it might be because I"m on lemm.ee)

No I have no reason to miss it

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[–] peaceful_world_view 23 points 5 days ago (12 children)

100% done with reddit, the place is now propaganda central and censorship is out of control.

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[–] letsgo2themall 41 points 5 days ago

obligatory 'fuck spez'. also reddit was compromised a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Spez desperately wants a place on the big bois table

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[–] soycapitan451 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Eventually, someone will Luigi Elon. Absolutely no one will care.

[–] Stern 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hey now... for about 10 minutes a bunch of people with names like Groyper1488, IdFuckMyTeslaIfItHadATailpipe and BitcoinKing will be very upset.

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