Ban x- xitter links now. Stop making excuses. Reddit is doing this now.

[we can do it]

[MotownPgh]

1. Agreed.

Every reddit sub I have been on today has banned them. I'm talking sports, fitness, every sub.

[jmbar2]

9. I was just on Reddit and didn't see X bans

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There is a campaigner posting on a bunch of subreddits trying to get it to happen. Mixed responses

Personally, I've got too many X links that I refer to every day for which there are no replacements at this time. (Day trader communities). Plus I know instantly if there is a tsunami alert.

Elon is losing money on X. My posting there doesn't benefit him. And I don't want to allow it to be a totally right-wing site. There is still a very strong contingent of progressives that post there. I support a continued progressive presence on X.

Purity tests rarely work out well for progressives. Let people choose their own media.

[DeepWinter]

38. I'm still seeing X on Reddit too.

[obamanut2012]

44. Hundreds of subreddits have banned twitter links and screenshots

Some also included Meta links.

I am a heavy Reddit users and all of my subs have banned them.

[tishaLA]

16. Even the Philadelphia Eagles subreddit

People are also posting the Bluesky "starter packs" so they'll have worthwhile people to follow right away.

[LeftInTX]

2. I'm not sure how reddit works, but if reddit goes to an all out X ban, then it will hurt X signficantly.

This is all I could find:


Elon Musk's Controversial Salute Prompts Calls to Ban X Links on Reddit
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-salute-reddit-x-ban-proposals-2018668

If they go through with it, it will hurt X.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Why aren't we doing that here?

[we can do it]

5. We can make it happen. fb needs to go too.

Suffocate the damn billionaires.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I am down to progressive friends, so, the minute an alternate shows up

we'll all move.

[LeftInTX]

6. We're not the size of reddit. All that will happen here, is that less information will be available.

It won't cause important people to switch to blue sky.

Tweets are sometimes the only source of information. Too many Democrats are still on twitter and only about 1/2 of my local ones are one blue sky.

It takes bigger names to take it down.

So far, I haven't seen that Reddit has abandoned twitter. I'm reading that there is talk of it.

Reddit has 73 million daily users. Those that use twitter will than migrate to other platforms when they see that their tweets are not being shared.

[we can do it]

8. Then why bother voting, too. Same logic. Starve the beast.

[Cirsium]

12. A source of information?

People are less well informed since the rise of social media, not better informed.

[LeftInTX]

18. Will you please tell the City of San Antonio to get on Blue Sky and drop twitter?

Will you contact my city council person and tell her to get off twitter please?
Will you contact my Democratic state rep and tell him to get off twitter and get on Blue Sky?

Tell the NWS to get on Blue Sky. (Sure some posts their alerts, but it's not the same as the real deal)
Tell Ryan Hall Yall to get on Blue Sky Never mind, I found Ryan Hall.

Blue Sky and Twitter are not social media IMO.
They provide information from public entities that I'm involved with.



I'm already bummed enough about Trump.
Now I'm supposed to "disengage" from local resources because someone on DU tells me to "disengage"?????

I already feel isolated because of all the horrors with Trump. But now I'm supposed to disengage even more?

[jmbar2]

29. "Let's punish Elon by not posting or sharing from X".

Why are there such loud voices all of a sudden trying to force people off X? Doesn't make much sense. Feels a bit suspect, to be honest.

If all the progressive voices disappeared from X, it would just create an information void, particularly at a time when Trump is banning information from health resources, etc. X needs progressive voices to counter the BS.

Elon doesn't make money from my X browsing - it's a money loser.

My feed on X is almost exclusively progressive content, news, health news such as epidemiological reports from researchers that will no longer be available from the government. Plus breaking emergency alerts, news from Ukraine, and specific communities that I follow for daytrading.

This "movement" to force people off X just doesn't make sense, and feels tyrannical.

[LeftInTX]

32. I think many people complaining weren't on X in the first place.

I don't spend much time there at all. But I like to read a tweet if someone posts it. I am an other forums that are not political too. Or if there is breaking news etc.

I guess it makes some people feel good to call other people names. We're all ready down.

I barely use X....

[jmbar2]

34. Thank you

Makes more sense to flood X with progressive critique than to further shrink our information ecosystem.

[Cirsium]

43. Absolutely

I tell everyone get off social media, no matter how big and important they may be, and have done so for years. Federal agencies, news sources, and politicians use social media because we are there, it is not the other way around, not that we have to be there because they are. Social media has replaced quality journalism and meaningful communications from institutions to a large extent, and debased what hasn't been replaced. The entire national political discussion has been debased, reduced to the level of bumper stickers. Collective memory is being systematically destroyed.

Republicans can advance their agenda with fear mongering, with emotionally charged one liners, with the endless repetition of simple minded slogans. We can't. We need a deeper and more sustained engagement with the public. Social media is the perfect communication tool for the right wing, and does not work for us. It is not a neutral tool. It can't be bent to work for us. Every time we use it we are helping our enemies.

When I see a tweet from a politician here I call their office and talk to staffers about how social media boosts right wing propaganda agenda and funds our enemies. That give and take human to human interaction doesn't happen on soil media. Talking to staffers is something I have done or a long time. They are the next generation of political leaders. I can't count the number of times that there were really productive conversations. However, it is becoming more and more rare for anyone in Congressional offices to answer a phone. Why? Social media.

Social media is the main reason we have Trump and the main reason people are isolated. It is an addiction, and I think that is why people get so upset when it is suggested they put it down.

I am not telling you to disengage, I am suggesting that you re-engage with the world outside of social media.

No one will listen to me about this, but I think someone should be warning people about the dangers.

[TommyT139]

30. Less information...and fewer cat videos!

I'm only somewhat joking -- some nights it's the cute/poignant videos from catbyte, tblue67, and others, who make it possible to keep going.

[hunter]

40. Do you get actionable information on X, or is it like the television news...

... leaving you glued to the screen and passive, yet feeling somehow you are "informed..."

DU is my only social media and I don't watch television news or opinion. I don't watch any advertising supported television at all. I was blocking twitter from my personal universe long before Musk bought it. I don't want their cookies, I don't want to be tracked by them.

DU is not my primary resource for political action, but it is a comfortable place to float some of my thoughts about politics, and the signal to noise ratio here is good.

[LeftInTX]

41. Short tweets. Emergency weather info. Breaking news.

When there is major breaking news, it often breaks on twitter.
Notices about parks, resources etc. Roads etc.

That's why it was created .

Twitter is often first before the media can write up the story and put in on a webpage. Webpages are cumbersome to manage, but any reporter can bring their cell phone and tweet: "We are in the Supreme Court listening to oral arguments" "Justice Sotomayor says........"

When in session, someone from the Texas Tribune will be live tweeting. It's kinda like our, "Live threads" on DU. You know when there's a debate and we're all watching and updating. It's similar to that.

We have also killed a few bills by tagging elected reps while they're in session!

[NJCher]

33. NJ Started It

The NJ Reddit sub is so funny.

[canetoad]

3. Agree

No excuses. It's owned by a facists who is using it to spread his message.

[Cne99999]

10. Agreed

been here since the beginning. I don't post. But this one is 100% agreed upon.

[usonian]

11. Kind of hard to misinterpret.

[Gore1FL]

15. The live-action shot demonstrates the point.

He did it twice.

[sheshe2]

28. I am far more concerned that he is....

The ‘President’ elect than the owner of twitter.

[tishaLA]

17. I saw a great clip from the UK today.

James O'Brien, a radio host on LBC (Leading Britain's Conversion) said that those who want to play games about whether it's a Nazi salute should go into work and do it just to see how that works out. Or do it at your child's school.

[osteopath6]

19. Play games?

Or not intentionally misinterpret something for the sake of controversy. Playing games is tossing around serious indictments with flimsy evidence.

Why is the ADL "covering" for him then?

Slow it down and the prosaic explanation is undeniable.

[rpannier]

21. James O' Brien was great today

I enjoy his show
Telling people to do it at work was a great idea

[tishaLA]

23. I catch him on YouTube

Living on the West Coast means the show starts at 2 AM for me, which obviously isn't ideal. He's very clever, intelligent, and doesn't suffer fools

[Cirsium]

13. Agreed

100% agree.

[JoseBalow]

14. There will always be people who rationalize and make excuses

They're called collaborators.

[osteopath6]

20. Mobs usually get it wrong.

The optics on this is despicable. Throwing around serious indictments and exploiting tragedy. Some people are truly addicted to this insanity.

[LeftInTX]

22. You know things are already depressing enough. Do you really need to accuse DU members of being collaborators?

I'm depressed as hell. I still have my twitter account because there are resources on it that are not on Blue Sky.
The City of San Antonio is on twitter and not Blue Sky
My Democratic State Rep is on twitter and not Blue Sky.

I'm not a Nazi collaborator.

I'm depressed as hell.
We don't need to be called Nazi collaborators when we're down.

Things are really bad right now and now we're suddenly Nazi collaborators? After I worked eight year resisting Trump? How I worked my butt for Beto, for Biden, for Beto again, for Kamala....and we're "collaborators"??

Is Kamala a collaborator? She's on twitter. Biden's on twitter.

[tishaLA]

24. I'm not going to criticize, but

Have you contacted those people, on Twitter or otherwise, and asked them to join Bluesky? Some people aren't as plugged into online stuff as we might be

[LeftInTX]

26. I haven't had the time. They will probably get there.

I've got too much going on right now. I'm trying to deal with all this depressing, Trump tsunami shit too. Usually I don't get like this, but this is really bad right now.

I'm starting to feel like America is over....

[SheltieLover]

27. ...

[JoseBalow]

36. I didn't say that

I hope you feel better.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

25. I would even go so far as saying

that "Link to tweet" is a violation of fundamental DU rules, as it promotes or supports hate speech and a right-wing terrorist group.

[AKwannabe]

31. While you are at it

FB too

FFS!

[NJCher]

39. There's a poster here who

Occasionally posts a thread with this as the subject: “found on Facebook.”

Tell me something about the content and I might click.

[Keepthesoulalive]

35. Part of being in the resistance is sacrifice

We are going to have to give up some of our comfort. The social media giants have pledged loyalty to orange Julius , we can’t continue to support people who want to take our freedoms. If Starbucks is hurting people because they want better working conditions let’s help the workers. Our uncles , grandparents, sacrificed during world war 2 and many made the ultimate. It’s up to us to keep fighting fascism and Nazi Musk. The Germans understood that salute, why can’t we stand up and say it’s wrong and we won’t support the racist, sexist gerbil.

[Voltaire2]

37. As always, this simple act of the smallest bit of resistance

to an overtly fascist regime, is met with denial, rejection, affront. It is just too much to ask.

We are truly f’d.

[we can do it]

42. Why is this post not showing on greatest page?

[demmiblue]

46. I can see it. n/t

[demmiblue]

45. I stopped going there the day after the election, and deleted my account on the inauguration.

Now that Bluesky is active and robust, there really is no reason or excuse to go there.

[demmiblue]

47. You can ban them, in a sense, by placing the posters who post Twitter links on ignore.

I no longer open posts that contain Twitter links, myself.

[Phentex]

48. It needs to happen here of all places

I try to ignore them now anyway but I'd rather not see anything

[LudwigPastorius]

49. Kicking, and wondering...

what it would take for this to happen.

Evidently, it's not Musk supporting the AfD, or throwing around Nazi salutes, but perhaps the illegal seizure of citizens' private data and the economic wheels of government would to it?

Asking for a friend:



On Edit: Aaaand, apparently this thread is unkickable to the top of General Discussion. That's one way of dealing with it, I guess.