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.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    There are still some anti empire posts on X.

    Does Musk want us to brigade his threads? I guess if it sells more Tide then probably, but I’ve never seen an ad on X.

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    5 hours ago

    I never click them anyway. If the meme isn’t wild enough to get pixelated into a shitpost gif then I don’t need to see it. Not once in my lifetime have I ever clicked a Twitter/Facebook/Instagram link and thought that the click was worth it.

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    6 hours ago

    Yes. Not only from Twitter, though. Spotify gave money to Trump’s inauguration. So did Google, and Amazon.

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    I’d support it. If something is worthy of drawing attention to, it’s worth taking a screenshot and sharing that - preferably with a backup to Wayback Machine.

    There’s no need to drive traffic to or engagement with X imo, even if it’s relatively minimal.

    Same for Meta products really, though idk if Instagram has some defense against screenshots (I know there’s other photo-focused services that do, I’m just not on Instagram very often/recently at all so idk).

  • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    Yes. Mostly because it’s difficult to view the full content without logging in, and I refuse to do that on principle. Screenshots and mirrors are fine, I just don’t think we should be generating traffic to that site.

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    8 hours ago

    Yes, Musk’s Nazi propaganda machine must reach as few people as possible. The guy is dangerous to the world. Twitter is a propaganda and misinformation tool now, it is no longer a place for social interactions.

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    10 hours ago

    Yes. I think it’s ok if people use screenshots of old Twitter memes because most of them have floated around forever, but block all links.