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They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

"Free speech absolutist" 🀣🀣🀣

[–] [email protected] 114 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (24 children)

That's more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.

This is in fact my very first post here. :)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Same. Just created my account

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I've been here for about a month, switching bettween this and Reddit, while still mostly using Reddit. This made me leave Reddit completely. This and getting banned for 3 days for upvoting a comment was the final straw.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

My God they've pissed off Hitler

[–] MyMotherIsAHamster 87 points 4 days ago (13 children)

I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying "Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell" - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, sounds like your freedom of speech was suppressed, at least according to the standard Elon espouses. I wonder why he now feels so strongly about doing the opposite thing from what he wanted before. πŸ€”

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m old enough to remember when Elon released β€œthe twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Reddit is dead to me and I was with it since near the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

There was that peak time back in the 2010s. Right after they got rid of all the worst hate communities but before they were taken over by astroturfing.

Maybe like 2014-2015ish?

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[–] [email protected] 322 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?

[–] [email protected] 162 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Which one, (fuck) spez or the Nazi saluting trust fund baby?

[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 290 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Reddit died June 2023

I don't know why people are still playing with the corpse

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (17 children)

I agree and haven't returned but lemmy hasn't hit critical mass yet.... Like I don't recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 days ago (9 children)

How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

There has been unwarranted censorship at a scale I've never seen on Reddit I thought it was the last bastion of free speech

While actual hate speech and seriously harmful content goes completely unchecked

It is unfortunate

Steve Bannon isnt welcome in Colorado. Phil Long Auditorium shouldn't host nazis. I was banned for saying as much from Fucking Reddit of all places Pointing out that there have been fires at dealerships lately does not equate to harrasment Phil Long Auditorium should not host the Rally period. Their casual attitude towards white supremacy is unacceptable and while i dont believe they should necessarily be burnt to the ground, there are better places to buy automobiles They deserve to be boycotted And i will punch a nazi mod in the face 100% of the time

Edit: UPDATE 2 PROTESTORS WERE RAN OVER BY TWO DIFFERENT HATE RALLY ATTENDEE"S CARS !!! NAZIS ARE VIOLENT PIECES OF SHIT

Told you so r/Coloradosprings

Fuck yall

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was finally the point that made me come here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same here, friend. This is my first post. Fuck Musk, and fuck Spez.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's why I'm here. Whatever musk touches turns to shit.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Is this the "free speech" everyone in 'Murica is talking 'bout?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.

After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I was banned for saying traitors to our nation should be publicly executed. Which is our actual law. So that’s confusing

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Trump committed treason on jan 6th, 2021. That is enough reason to hang him, and yet he still breathes.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Reddit has been compromised by the oligarchs.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I’ve been seeing the steady increase in posts and complaints about Reddit banning folks for political speech for the last couple of months and I finally have had enough so here I am. Been on there for 14 years… Byeeeee.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's be real here, Pig Boy didn't need Elon to pressure him much to clamp down on people critical of the elite.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I look at Reddit like I look at Facebook. Both are trash and have outlived their use. If you have a profile on either one, delete it or at least delete the app.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Reddit has been a an archive of some of the greatest collective minds of humanity. Besides the general algorithm up voting bots hogwash, there have been some really good subreddits with excellent information from learned professionals on topics. it I wish it was preserved rather than deleted. The AskHistorians is one of my favourite professional vetted and clean subreddits, lots of academic discussions there.

But all things have a Golden Era, and then it's enshittified and fades away. As Lemmy will be one day too.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah the "free speech absolutist" strikes again.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I just got a temporary ban for cussing out Elon in one of the antifacist subreddits, felt good. I'm wearing this ban as a badge of honor.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Add "brown nosing spinless wimp" to the list of acceptable descriptors of Spez

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[–] ininewcrow 129 points 5 days ago

Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

Just call them out

Call them often

Call them out every day

Never stop calling them out ..... you'll know they're listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Elon acts like a dude with a very tiny penis.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Record of OPs 18.5 years on Reddit

I guess time to bail for good?

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago (3 children)

One more reason to use Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (9 children)

This story compelled me to finally commit to using Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Personally I couldnβ€˜t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. Youβ€˜re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (5 children)

That...should be intolerable for redditors, you'd think this would finally make them leave.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (12 children)

I tested just writing "Luigi" and was banned for a day. I deleted my 10+ years account with over 200k karma. I was so attached to that profile, but I promptly deleted it after being banned. Fuck these billionaires telling us what's ok to say.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No shit, that explains Reddits noticeable change in moderation after the election.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love Reddit so much, but the censorship is bullshit! I quit the entire META platform months ago, lost a lot of contacts but fuck Zuckerberg!

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[–] Literocola 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I got a ban for saying β€œeven the sharks don’t want to eat Russians” on an article about a Russian tourist getting attacked by a shark.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My permaban came from a post about DOGE. They deleted the comment, permabanned me, and wouldn't let me see what I even commented. They said it was "encouraging violence" but hell no, I was making sure not to say anything like that. Wonder if I just insulted Elon and reddit decided to finally get rid of me.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Elon is being a damn snowflake.

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