Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to (formally Twitter)

Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

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Redditors will lose their shit. Let us welcome them to Lemmy with open arms.
formerly* is the word you're thinking of.

This is great news. But I have absolutely no faith that Spez won't revert such a change, given his well-publicized love for M*sk.
- Frankly, I'm surprised that there are mods who dare to show any sort of defiance at all. I thought all the defiant ones left or decided they were OK with ring-kissing deference to Spez.
  
  Have some of them grown backbones in the meantime?
  
  Well, it's not direct opposition to Spez yet. Just sort of...second-order uprising.
- I don't see why Spez wouldn't like it. His mods are banning linking to a different social media website and he can claim plausible deniability.
  
  Because he thinks Elon is the smartest smart boy ever. The whole reason Lemmy got its big boost a couple years ago is that Elon banned third party apps and Spez thought that sounded like a good idea.
They should be the same with lemmy. I just filtered everything from Twitter
- I can’t think of a single Twitter post I’ve seen on here. Just seems like begging for increased censorship for the sake of it. Let’s not encourage powermods behavior.
- A few have. I saw a post from the Playstation community on .world and one from somewhere else I can't recall, glad these communities are taking a stand (not that I see many Twitter links on this site in the first place).
  
  I started doing this myself on [email protected] and [email protected]

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