Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.

"Free speech absolutist" 🤣🤣🤣

That's more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.

This is in fact my very first post here. :)

My God they've pissed off Hitler

I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying "Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell" - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.

Reddit is dead to me and I was with it since near the beginning.

I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.

Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?

Reddit died June 2023

I don't know why people are still playing with the corpse

There has been unwarranted censorship at a scale I've never seen on Reddit I thought it was the last bastion of free speech

While actual hate speech and seriously harmful content goes completely unchecked

It is unfortunate

Steve Bannon isnt welcome in Colorado. Phil Long Auditorium shouldn't host nazis. I was banned for saying as much from Fucking Reddit of all places Pointing out that there have been fires at dealerships lately does not equate to harrasment Phil Long Auditorium should not host the Rally period. Their casual attitude towards white supremacy is unacceptable and while i dont believe they should necessarily be burnt to the ground, there are better places to buy automobiles They deserve to be boycotted And i will punch a nazi mod in the face 100% of the time

Edit: UPDATE 2 PROTESTORS WERE RAN OVER BY TWO DIFFERENT HATE RALLY ATTENDEE"S CARS !!! NAZIS ARE VIOLENT PIECES OF SHIT

Told you so r/Coloradosprings

Fuck yall

Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy

Is this the "free speech" everyone in 'Murica is talking 'bout?

That's why I'm here. Whatever musk touches turns to shit.

This was finally the point that made me come here

I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.

After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.

Reddit has been compromised by the oligarchs.

I look at Reddit like I look at Facebook. Both are trash and have outlived their use. If you have a profile on either one, delete it or at least delete the app.

Ah the "free speech absolutist" strikes again.

I just got a temporary ban for cussing out Elon in one of the antifacist subreddits, felt good. I'm wearing this ban as a badge of honor.

Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

Just call them out

Call them often

Call them out every day

Never stop calling them out ..... you'll know they're listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

Elon acts like a dude with a very tiny penis.

Add "brown nosing spinless wimp" to the list of acceptable descriptors of Spez

One more reason to use Lemmy.

Personally I couldn‘t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. You‘re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.

I guess time to bail for good?

That...should be intolerable for redditors, you'd think this would finally make them leave.

No shit, that explains Reddits noticeable change in moderation after the election.

I got a ban for saying “even the sharks don’t want to eat Russians” on an article about a Russian tourist getting attacked by a shark.

I love Reddit so much, but the censorship is bullshit! I quit the entire META platform months ago, lost a lot of contacts but fuck Zuckerberg!

My permaban came from a post about DOGE. They deleted the comment, permabanned me, and wouldn't let me see what I even commented. They said it was "encouraging violence" but hell no, I was making sure not to say anything like that. Wonder if I just insulted Elon and reddit decided to finally get rid of me.

Elon is being a damn snowflake.

The enshittification of Reddit continues on.

Welcome, reddit refugees. You won't miss Spezzit.

I'm not and never was banned from there, however I left on my own accord after this happened, as if all their other enshittification didn't reinforce that decision.

It's why I came here...

I'm glad I got banned, Reddit is going downhill fast

Why is anyone on Reddit??

What the nazis couldn't subdue - they killed.

America Hates

TRAITORAPIST TRUMP

I left moderating some significant subs back when with the 3rd party app protests, but did return to Reddit after that to start my own.

But now, since early December I'm done-done.

My account has been deleted (as with Discord), and I'm all in on the fediverse. Seeing the proposed changes (the concept of a paid sub that Spez is so adament about?), I just had enough. And the more news of Reddit I see, the happier I am I did.

Most of my daily time now is spent on Mastodon, but I am here every few days trying to share a post or two.

Musk, the great champion of freedom of speech!

Reddit is becoming such a shit hole anyway, the site barely functions on mobile browser now, half the time it has API errors or fails to load.

It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?

The day I saw Trump win I knew Reddit was going on the chopping block but even then, it’s been going downhill since 2016 with bots, bot mods, and language policing. Merely saying ‘fucking Luigi’ is a ban worthy offense and it’s absolutely asinine.

This (among other reasons) is why I left Reddit, deleted my account and move to Lemmy.world.

So surprised! /s

i feel like musk is going to demand reddit get rid of old reddit next because it's too nice a layout

Because Reddit mods are known for not being massive corruptable stooges?

Moderators are outraged but will forget that in a few days and won't leave reddit anyway.

Fucking crybaby

I get that Musk is doing all types of tropes. But... what is the source for this newspaper I never heard about before? Is there any evidence for these pressures beyond "Trust me bro, we are the Latin times"?

I also deleted my reddit account. What is happening in that sub?

It looks like this is the ex-redditor handshake thread. Did anyone start here without coming from Reddit? I heard about Lemme during the IPO fallout but didn’t pursue it until the mass shadow ban rollout.

I’m also still jumping back and forth, but that’s only because the big content creators for hobby stuff are still on Reddit. Once they migrate, I’ll likely delete my account.

People need to stop using reddit.

/r/mariokart is gonna fucking implode

Musk is such a free speech Nazi.

Yeah, I'd deleted my Reddit posts and then my account in November. I was already irked at what they did to their API, and then the Orange Dingbat got elected and I decided it was enough.

Later on, I went back, but only to lurk, but since many of the specialised subs require that you join in able to read posts makes it pretty unusable at this point.

I miss the old Reddit; I was there for over a decade. But here we are, building a new place for ourselves.

wHY Do pEoPlE HaTe Me!?

Free Speech^TM

So the Twitter boss gets to order around the Reddit boss? Typical Stevie... No spine

Fuck the GAFAM + Musk rat.

My posts and comments were being censored too. Nothing related to Musk nor politics. Good thing I switched over. This is my new home.

Just a reminder that if Musk can do this with no ownership of reddit, you know the CCP through Tencent has been doing it for ages.

I didn't get banned, I just can't login anymore. All browsers confirm username and pass are correct, but reddit says they are not. They really don't like critics. No calls for violence, veiled or otherwise. The wheels are coming off that country quickly.

Why don’t we have similar class solidarity?

I never believed reptilian conspiracy theories but now every time i see his photo and his eyes remind me of reptilian. So what if it is true? What if them ultra rich with true background story how they climbed ladder of power and success are actual reptilians who make regular earth humans do crazy shit. What if? Because nothing else controls people on the planet but ultra rich. Ultra rich do not go to wars and usually do not deal directly with poor common man. They live in their own world behind the walls similar like in the movie "In time". Putin does not go to war neither his children, or trump. They send poor/uneducated or impressionable people to spill the blood of others.

Kinda pisses me off that this joke of a clown has this much a authority.

This is why I left Reddit.

One of the most recurring things I see here is the mods are at wits end with Reddit Admins again. They've given up a lot of leverage in doing another blackout, but they really need to ask themselves what they have to gain being unpaid volunteers for a website clearly working against its users.

I hope he does something stupid like buy Reddit.

American understanding of free speech

What I find ironic about this whole situation is that the conservatives had a major uproar after they discovered that the Biden administration told Meta/Facebook to censor COVID misinformation. But now that it’s them telling social media platforms to censor content critical of Musk and DOGE? Complete and utter silence. Free speech my ass. Source

I don't feel bad that I got banned by the guy behind the cybertruck. Ahahahaha.

I wonder how many people will struggle to cut themselves off from their reddit crackpipe. So many people are still using Meta shit even after it's been overtly weaponized against dissidents.

I am jumping back and forth as well for now…. My first posts here! Thanks to whomever got this going !

‘Pressured’? I hate these types of ‘highlighting’ in titles.

Thank fuck I deleted my account when they "accidentally" banned a bunch of subreddits that were related to trans or LGBTQ folk. I found that disgusting.

The mods on Reddit are a joke anyway. But still, pretty messed up.

duckduckgo: shows tracking attempt. Zero attempts on lemmy

This happened to me like 10 times so I came here.

I’m sure this wasn’t designed as an exodus of critical thinkers

They should only post critics of Doge now.

Just reddit things.

Wow now I feel justified for leaving and feel like I should do another post where I tell people to follow us here

They're still pressuring and mass banning

Oh, please... the mods are all little bitches. Like they care

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tired of government censorship, whether it's left or right wing. They both do it, and it sucks either way. Then both sides will "champion free speech" when they're not the ones in power.

pretents to be shocked

i read president musk again 😬

I read the article and the headline is more like click-bait. There's a lot of innuendo, but not much in the way of factual reporting. I can't stand the arrogance of Musk, I also believe that venerable reporting companies should be fact based.

Where's the freedom of speech Americans are so proud of

Boooo