A lot of subreddits are banning/proposing to ban X links in response to Führer Elon’s wonderful gesture of love and tolerance. Should this instance follow suit?

Also, Instagram/Threads/Meta links. Same question.

  • xelar@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Do you think Lemmy should act like Meta, which banned Pixelfed links and Mastodon instances?

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      23 hours ago

      Logic like this is like refusing to use violence against colonizers because your colonizer uses violence.

      Tactics cannot be evaluated solely on the basis of whether your opponent uses them. Banning certain sources robs them of a little bit more reach and that’s a good thing if you’re talking about an explicitly fascist platform. I think either screenshots or archive links should be the only time x posts are allowed.

  • TypicalHog@lemm.ee
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    Wasn’t Lemmy supposed to be for free speech/anti-censorship and shit? Or maybe I got it wrong? Yall do realize there are many reasonable things on X and not just the right-wing/Elon stuff. Right?

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      11 hours ago

      Yes, we do realize that. But we can no longer fight them on a platform literally controlled algorithmically from the top-down by the worlds richest man who is backed by the commander-in-chief of the world’s best-funded military. Maybe deleting our accounts is a better strategy then ratioing losers on a platform subject to increasingly open and brazen manipulation.

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      24 hours ago

      You have to be willing to walk away from and ignore corporate media platforms, or else they’ll never be defeated. And content creators need to also learn to not post their stuff to these platforms.

    • Lemmy is software that can be used however the instance admin that hosts the community that you are using want it to be used. It is censorship proof which means that you are free to launch your own instance and publish your own content which will be sent to and be accessible from other Lemmy software instances that federate with you and allow the content or people can sign in themselves to your local instance if you allow them to make accounts and access your software and hosting.

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        15 hours ago

        That makes sense. I guess the instances I’m using are pro-censorship and not Lemmy itself.

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    2 days ago

    I’d be more than happy to see all links pointing to xitter banned. FB/Meta would be nice too, but I think it’s more important to sending a clear signal on neo-nazi salutes being a red line.

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    23 hours ago

    Yes… we should probably ban Xitter links… but maybe allow other front ends? You know, because screenshots can be forged.

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    2 days ago

    If you dont like X posts, you can not open X links. But dont make others unable to view it if they want

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      12 hours ago

      i respect your opinion, your right to have an opinion, glad you shared your opinion, glad to read opposing opinions, Glad your opinion was not suppressed or censored or shadow banned, that someone having purchased access doesn’t drown out your opinion, and others refrained from ganging up to suppress the opposing view.

      Sometimes in echo chambers the opposing opinion turns out to be right.

      This is not one of those cases. <-- my opinion position

      But i really liked that you posted and the opposing opinion was given a fair access to eye balls

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        8 hours ago

        I said that if you dont agree with something, thats ok but dont take it away from other people. You said that same thing, but also that im wrong. Thats interesting

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            5 hours ago

            I just pointed that its interesting that you agreed with me and said that i was wrong at the same time. Really dont care if you agree or not

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    2 days ago

    Yes. Ban it. No more traffic to big social media. If something is newsworthy there will be a blog post about it.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s why Soviet WW2 veterans who had served on the Western front were sent to the GULAG.

      This American defector seems to have gotten by a lot better than he would have if he’d stayed loyal to America. Says he spent a few days in a cell but I don’t recall mention of any gulag.

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    12 hours ago

    Yes, PLEASE! Even without the whole Sieg Heil debacle Twitter is ass to use if you’re not a registered user. Same with Meta & co.