Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report
www.latintimes.com
Billionaire Tesla CEO and Trump ally Elon Musk allegedly pressured the CEO of social media platform Reddit to stifle users criticizing him or President Donald Trump, leaving platform moderators furious.

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

  • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

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

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

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I got here because they killed Apollo 🫶🏻 never forget

      I use Voyager now for lemmy

    • FreeHat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I’m brand new as well and hopeful but wow the smaller forums here need some love. The topic variety is small to the point where maybe straight up bot cloning subreddits here where posts on Reddit just get reposted to their Lemmy equivalent to kick start refugees feeling at home. Plus if there’s basically cross platform discussion posts it gives ground for users of existing subreddits to migrate.

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
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      23 days ago

      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.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
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        23 days ago

        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.

        • sloppychops@lemmy.caEnglish
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          23 days ago

          Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

        • bugg@lemm.eeEnglish
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          23 days ago

          Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

          Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

          I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

          Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

        • Civil_Liberty@lemm.eeEnglish
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          23 days ago

          It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.

          • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
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            23 days ago

            I used to help out in r/Botdefense

            The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        23 days ago

        I’ve never considered that a limitation.

        You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

        If anything, here I’m finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn’t drown among a hundred others.

  • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

  • xenomor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

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

        • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
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          23 days ago

          It’s hard for the subreddits that barely have any traction as is. But it’s entirely feasible for most of them. Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?

          • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            23 days ago

            First of all this isnt reddit so its not subreddits. We are communities here

            And second: feed sorters exist

            • Flickerby@lemm.eeEnglish
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              23 days ago

              It’s hard enough getting acclimated here and then someone comes along and asks an innocent question or looks for more information and it’s all “fIrST oF AlL ThIs IsN’t ReDdIt” like no shit, shut the fuck up and stop being the problem with this site that makes people leave.

    • Burninator@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I received two platform bans in the last few months over the most asinine things. Hadn’t gotten a single one in nearly 15 years up until now.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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

  • SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Probably, yeah. I made new accounts often but my oldest would probably have been 2010. But I’ve given up once I found lemmy aside from occasionally going back to help people come over when I know reddit has further agitated its existing base.