Elon Musk takes aim at Reddit
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Musk previously hit out at Wikipedia after its annual report showed it spent 29 percent of its budget on "equity" and "safety & inclusion."
  • abobla@lemm.eeEnglish
    607·
    4 months ago

    “I just got a lifetime ban from the ‘comics’ subreddit. Yesterday, I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn’t. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the ‘comics’ subreddit. But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?”

    LMAO, the mod that permanently banned this dude is amazing!

    • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
      121·
      4 months ago

      I love that this counts as totalitarian from their perspective (but nothing else)

      • abobla@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        4 months ago

        “How can I live in a world where they delete my comments? I can accept any other form of suffering for minorities, but please, do not remove my comment 🥺”

      • SpicyAnt@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        The hierarchy of power:

                      -- Reddit mod --
         ---------- God -----------
    ------------ Elon Musk ------------
-------------- US President --------------
    • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I’ve only been here for a couple of weeks. I got banned yet again from Reddit so fuck that site. And thanks for the welcome. Peace.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    Spez is probably a centimillionaire, and Sam Altman supposedly has a 9% stake in Reddit. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

    Who knows what this pseudo-event is about, other than shoving oligarchs in my face again. Fuck all these fuckers.

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    Spez was a total musk fanboy during the early Twitter changes and said that he used him as an inspiration when changing Reddit’s api, breaking all the decent phone clients. I don’t doubt he’ll do anything to join the big boys club.

  • onlooker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    If he does take it over, what will he name it, though? He already has X.com. ReddiX? Rexxit? …Y.com?

  • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    I was on reddit and got banned from a sub solely based on my username. LMAO

    So bring on the redditors. Cuz that place is a toxic shithole!