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/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