Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter citing a "prevalence of violent content."

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  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    19 minutes ago

    So did reddit suspend anyone who posted stories about the federal workers information.

    • analoghobbyist@lemmy.world
      2·
      26 minutes ago

      Give it some time. It took a while for people to “get” reddit, it will take some time for people to understand federated social media to the point that they feel comfortable using it.

    • mbl@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Good news! Reddit is starting to ban porn so there might be a user wave on its way!

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      We’ve seen an uptick in sign-ups. It’s nothing like Pixelfed’s day in the sun but it is noticeable but may only be obvious in the numbers over the longer term.

      This isn’t the only sub being shut down (obvious ones like r/iselondeadyet are also gone) and we may be days away from Rexxit 2.0. It’s something I’m planning for with the other Admins on our instance.

      • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        54 minutes ago

        Good to hear!

        Yes, I do think (hope?) that will be another migration wave. Hopefully one that can kickstart organic double digit YoY MAU growth as well as getting total MAUs over 100K.

      • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        I agree. That’s why I’ve largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.

        I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.

        But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.

        It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.

        But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.

        I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      31·
      55 minutes ago

      Basically. Usually it was a tweet that was either funny or being made fun of. For some reason there was a separate subreddit for tweets made by black people. Possibly to make fun of racial segregation?

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      I used to think it was releated to racism due to the name.

      • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        7 hours ago

        I was screenshots of people basically being mental or entitled on twitter. You’re classic “white Karen” etc. stereotype. There was or is a black twitter too…wonder if that’s banned. That’s definitely more racist.

    • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      32·
      9 hours ago

      Of course it is, especially in this new era of censorship and restricted speech, brought to you by a self claimed free speech absolutist.

      From my point of view, it seems like the only solution is to move away from corporate social media, and to federated foss platforms that are much harder to stifle on a global stage.

      It’ll be interesting to see if the world will shift in response to continued encroachment on liberty, or if we just continue to take it.

    • KorhakaEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Already is. But how much further can they go?

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    241·
    9 hours ago

    I know we are all here because of our distaste of Reddit.

    HOWEVER in a capitalist system the only thing to speak volumes is the people who speak up.

    If there is a way for us to email or blast the admins of Reddit then we should. Not for Reddit but to start a backlash. If we stay silent then nothing changes.

    I bed of you all to actually report false information. There has been no law broken. There has been no laws passed only executive orders thus far.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001103212

    I’m not asking for the sake of Reddit. I’m asking for the sake of everything else.

    When you find things like this, take 5 minutes, that’s it. Research the company find the place to complain and do it.

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
      211·
      9 hours ago

      The only thing that speaks in capitalism is money. Want to hurt reddit? Leave. Reddit makes money with your data, stop giving it to those asshats. Your emails will be ignored until you start talking in the way that can hurt them.

      • irish_link@lemmy.world
        83·
        9 hours ago

        I clearly failed to make my point. This isn’t about Reddit. It’s about a company folding based on bullshit. A law has to go through Congress and be signed by the president before it becomes law. An executive order is not a law. And only elected person like mosque, saying something is not law.

        If we let companies fold here about absolute nothing then it’s just the peak. Everything else fails after that.

        Edit: Actually, no I didn’t fail to make my point you’re just ignoring it. I said multiple times is not about Reddit.

        • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          reddit has always had a policy to mute or ban subs that break certain rules and the moderators don’t moderate… reddit site-wide rules such as doxxing or calls the violence.
          i’d argue it’s not doxxing as they’re doing things only public figures should be doing… but comments about shooting them in the head has always been a no-go on reddit….
          when the sub was called out publicly, i reckon a lot of magats went on and hit the report button.
          ….
          it’s not really a big deal… the big deal is them accessing the u.s. treasury computers and ALREADY modifying a “significant” amount of code.
          btw, anyone who programs can tell that means they’re either extremely reckless, or they had previous access to the system and source code.
          they couldn’t even read that much code over a weekend, let alone understand it enough to modify it significantly….
          this very detail is the smoking gun, actually…

        • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
          81·
          8 hours ago

          I didn’t ignore your point, I countered it. The only way to make a company that’s driven by money to listen to you is to hurt their floating line.

          Reddit (and most if not all big techs) is only worried about one opinion: the conservative opinion. And since we are complaining about them folding to nazis, do you think they will listen? But sure, write an email, spam them with email about how being a nazi is bad.

          Subs are banning links from xitter and what’s doing reddit? Closing subs because poor elmo got his ego hurt. I’m sure a strong worded email will make them listen.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      33 minutes ago

      I was permanently banned from reddit for “threatening violence against places” when I made a sarcastic comment about someone else’s plan to fix the housing crisis by destroying housing as it was being constructed.

      I can’t believe these people who are openly calling for mass murder aren’t being banned. My reddit account had zero problems for twelve years and then I was banned over that one comment, for a rule that doesn’t exist (they told me I’d broken the rule against “violence against places”, but no such rule exists).

      The obvious bias over there pisses me off.