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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Uh-oh, reddit also deleted a top comment for recommending Lemmy - are they Good or Evil? Binary thinker brains asplode!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I thought the biggest PC gaming sub was /r/pcmasterrace ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

They had to shutdown because master race was in the title.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

To be clear: It wasn't the behavior of X or Musk over the past year that caused this, when he was already clearly being a Nazi pushing Nazi propaganda, it was the Nazi Salute.

I'm glad people are finally blocking X and I'll take wins where we can get them, but this should have happened a long time ago.

The behavior of X did not change after his salute, it was already operating as a Nazi platform. My opinion of Musk didn't change after seeing his Nazi salute, I already knew he was a fascist supporting the fascist party. My only surprise was that he was already willing to say it louder for the people in the back that he's a Nazi.

It's so frustrating that people are so unwilling to call fascists fascists until they go completely mask off. Musk can exhibit every Nazi behavior and people keep using X no problem, but it's the fucking salute that gets them to finally block the platform.

So do people hate Nazis because of what they stand for? Or do they just hate the Nazi salute? Because by all available information it's the salute that might get someone in trouble, all the other behaviors get ignored or excused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

mask off, musk on

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

He’s financing AfD and has agreed with tweets that Jewish people are trying to dovide the white race. He’s as fascist as fascists can be.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't think I was still capable of being shocked but the nazi salute at the president's podium did actually shock me a little. They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more. I would hope that this shit makes people avoid musk-related products like they're a rabid rottweiler. I kinda feel bad for people who bought a Tesla years ago though. Also, spaceX has to be a national security issue now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more

They're still trying to pretend:

Alternative explanations for the gesture are plausible. Musk is socially awkward, and he may have been stiffly trying to throw love to the crowd for helping put Trump back in office. “My heart goes out to you,” he said after he did the gesture a second time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

Rolling stone? That's disappointing. Yeah I've seen similar shit in the media. But I'm thinking if it acts like a nazi and looks like a nazi it is probably a fuckin nazi. it's pretty fuckin alarming, a lot of people died getting rid of them last time they gained power.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I see people trying to use the "but he has autism, he probably didn't understand what he was doing!" Except those are the same people that will turn around and yell at a regular person with autism and say "shut up, it's not an excuse!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

I've got autism and I'm not doing sieg heil even when I want to stop a taxi. Let alone on the main fuckin stage of the US with the world watching. Fuckin nazis back in power.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If Reddit gamers are calling someone else ‘hateful’ and ‘toxic,’ you know it’s got to be bad.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not usually someone who's anti-Reddit (in terms of the users, at least)...but the first sub I blocked was r/gaming, and the most negative users I ever interacted with were on r/AnimalCrossing and r/Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how animal crossing players could be so negative lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

The internet can sometimes be a trying place, where the biggest fans are also the biggest critics and can't think critically beyond pure hate.

I actually think federation will help this a bit, as breaking up fandoms into smaller better moderated pockets should help guide more civil discourse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Lmao what happened? I only ever had good experiences on those subs but then again I haven’t used Reddit in a few years

[–] [email protected] 54 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I've seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.

It's sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

r/republican is melting down over the removal/no more Twitter links thing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Really, what don't those people melt down over. They're reactionaries, they by essence have to melt down over everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 182 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I wonder how long till Reddit admins get pissy over blocking the nazi site.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

I doubt they'll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don't want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Huffman is just another american technology oligarch. It is in his interest to spread corruption and undermine rule of law.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Bad, but not nearly Twitter bad.

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

Reddit had communities dedicated to pedos and an incredibly toxic Trump community long before Twitter started getting a bad rep.

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

For sure...

But, IDK, i think modern Twitter is worse than modern reddit. That said i havnt been on reddit since the migration.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

A miserable pile of secrets

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

They really take the PoE cheating seriously.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

What's PoE? Other than Power over Ethernet, of course.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Elon did a live stream playing the new Path of Exile game. His character was one of the top 20 ranked in the game. He has bragged about being the best on several games. Anyway, it was obvious to everyone watching that he knew very little about how the game actually worked. He finally confessed this week that he pays other people play the character for him, but also claimed that all the top players do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, right. Yeah, I saw that video, he (allegedly) didn't know the basics of map navigation and wouldn't pickup good drops.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The part that got me the most was when he was complaining about his gear (some of the very best gear in the game) "this helmet is only level 52, even though I'm level 96". Those were equip levels, not power levels... One of his items he dismissed as not good was the one you get from the final boss. There's no room for "allegedly" with that part.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 21 hours ago

reddit replacing mods in 3 ... 2 ...

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