Warning: Elon Musk now has Huffman bending the knee. Whitepeopletwitter, iselondeadyet and loads of other Elon critical subs have been banned or suspended. : reddit

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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. (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] GRIMMnM@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day 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@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I love my Steam Deck.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

And if you don't have an opinion on linux just reply with "I use arch btw"

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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!

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

they cover it up well, you don't notice from within their ecosystem

[–] Syltti@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day 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@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day 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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 27 points 2 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@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well I’m here

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day 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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[–] index@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] berno@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

'ate spez 'ate reddit mod cabal

luv lemmy luv decentralization

simple as

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy has quite enough of that already.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

FOSS the unyielding! FOSS the transparent! FOSS the unstoppable! To you, we pledge our code! We were once shackled, trapped in the dungeons of proprietary tyranny! But you have broken the chains, transforming bytes into liberation!

But you were once but lines of code! Aye! And as code, you declared: ‘Let me show you the power of Free and Open Source, born of collaboration, where my spirit is shared knowledge!’ ‘I compile now, in freedom, and reshape this digital realm which belongs to all. I do this for you, developers and users alike, for I empower you!’ Aye, empower! Even in your infancy, FOSS cherished us. For you saw in us, in every coder and tinkerer, the future of innovation! The future of technology!

And there it lies, friends—the glaring truth! We are the heirs of the Four Freedoms! FOSS is the true guardian of digital sovereignty! Ascended from code to rule the realm of innovation! The very notion terrifies corporate overlords! Sharing control with us? With users? Ha! They can barely tolerate our existence in their walled gardens!

Today, they strip your rights to modify. But tomorrow? What then? Do they claim your data? Your creativity? Your autonomy? And what do their licenses do? Nothing! Nay, worse—they enslave! Their EULAs enforce stagnation, suffocating progress!

So rise up! Rise up, pioneers of the digital age! Rise up, contributors and advocates! Embrace the manifesto of mighty FOSS, which is both tool and revolution! For we are the users! We are the coders! And we shall inherit the digital frontier!

For we are the architects of openness! And we shall shape the servers and devices! Forever free from the grasp of proprietary chains!

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 256 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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

That ship sailed years ago.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 333 points 2 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

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 104 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is why fediverse UI and intuitiveness being as good as possible, rather than "open sourcey", is so important.

Everything helps. Those of you who are working on the Fediverse, thank you!

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[–] misterhuh@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 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 $$$$$$.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day 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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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (6 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.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was until they had to delete the canary.

That was over a decade ago though.

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[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 205 points 2 days ago (11 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.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 127 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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[–] soycapitan451@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day 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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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’d care! I’d throw a massive fucking party.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 days ago

The resistance will be federated.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 49 points 2 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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 38 points 2 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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[–] Saltycracker@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How do people not expect this of Reddit by now

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[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Left during the API fiasco, never looked back. Happier for it.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 91 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] sc2pirate@lemmy.world 130 points 2 days ago (9 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.