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Can We Block x.com And twitter.com Links on Lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With Elon Musk's Nazi Salute and manipulation of twitter, he has more than shown his true side. Many communities have started blocking Twitter links. There are multiple mirrors you can use to show posts without giving traffic and ad money to Musk

xcancel.com, nitter.privacydev.net, nitter.poast.org, lightbrd.com, etc.

See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Can we do something instance wide here?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While I don't mind this, I barely see anyone posting twitter links here anyway, so it likely won't make much difference, even to us, let alone to twitter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Then not many people will be negatively affected, great!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be fine with that. Best way would just be to report posts that do, so we can ask their creators to use the xcancel links, and remove them if they don't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Great! Can we add that to the instance rule list on the sidebar?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Those usually get downvoted to hell anyways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not that I'm an .ml member but, thanks for considering this in the first place.