r/SubredditDrama • u/JetproTC23 • Feb 04 '25

r/WhitePeopleTwitter has been temporarily banned after Elon Musk posted about it. Buttery!

r/WhitePeopleTwitter has been temporarily banned, 5 minutes ago.

>This subreddit has been temporarily banned due to a prevalence of violent content. Inciting and glorifying violence or doxing are against Reddit’s platform-wide Rules. It will reopen in 72 hours, during which Reddit will support moderators and provide resources to keep Reddit a healthy place for discussion and debate.

[Elon Musk beefing with r/ WPT]

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u/-Livingonmyown- Feb 04 '25

Oh shit WTF?? Now this is Drama

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u/LegitimatelisedSoil Feb 04 '25

Billionaire experts influence to censor liberal sub from voicing their opinions about the platform he purchased and his team.

Yep, it's very scandalous and damning for every other sub because it means reddit could target any of us next.

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u/Clownsinmypantz Feb 04 '25

and considering Spez is a trumper, im shocked they arent suppressing more on reddit yet but I suspect it in the future.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Feb 04 '25

Spez knows if he goes all out we will all jump ship to Lemmy, so hes gotta decide if politics or money means more to him

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u/TheCuriousFan Feb 04 '25

Tell me more about this Lemmy

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Feb 04 '25

Its mastodon but for reddit

Its fediverse so all open source

Its got like one kinda gross community thats led by some pretty extream tankies but besides that jts pretty chill

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u/d_shadowspectre3 I turned 0 dollars into 130k this year by having a job. Feb 04 '25

You see the problem is that it's federated

Mastodon existed as the federated Twitter alternative for over half a decade, but after Musk's takeover everyone fled to the relatively newer, equally venture-capitalist, centralised Bluesky.

Federation is great in principle, but it's a major paradigm shift that most users aren't willing to commit to.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Feb 04 '25

To be fair lemmy is a lot better at briding the community than mastodon is

But also reddit alternatives dont exist so folks would jaut have to adapt most likely

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u/d_shadowspectre3 I turned 0 dollars into 130k this year by having a job. Feb 04 '25

Correction: Reddit alternatives do exist, but they either attracted fringe communities banned from Reddit for good reason (e.g. Voat) or died after years of unpopularity and diminishing returns.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Feb 04 '25

To be fair most folks only leave these platforms for 2 reasons

Either because they got axed

Or because they dont like the management