Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

      • M137@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        Really? It was less active than Reddit about a year ago, but now it’s not that different in terms of how often the front page changes. Browse by all and just block whichever instances and communities you don’t want to see. I’d much rather have fewer comments than most of them being bots and children spamming dumb shit.

      • running_ragged@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.

        There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.

        Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.

        Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        29 days ago

        My own experience has been the opposite, I’ve gotten more engagement in my short time here than in the last year or two on reddit. Plus no one here is trying to ban my account every time I point out trump/ musk is a big ol poopy pants.

      • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        29 days ago

        You gotta Field of Dreams it; post in communities you want to see liven up and people will follow, it just takes time.

        • Albbi@lemmy.ca
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          29 days ago

          I was trying to describe the plot of Field of Dreams just the other day.

          A guy builds a baseball field in his corn field so that ghost players will come and play games there.

          Their response was: The 90 were weird. And I had to agree. I’m gonna have to watch the movie again to figure out why I liked it so much.

      • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Sort by new! There’s a flood of fresh posts all the time and if you upvote/comment the ones you like they end up at the top of other people’s active feed with your comment already there!!

        • moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          29 days ago

          I always sort by “New” and browse “All.” Just to upvote and give traction to the smaller communities. Especially give my appreciation to any original content.

      • Bender12@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        I’ve been here since Apigate. It’s getting more active, but not the same. However, I’ve found myself actually scrolling less due to the less content, which has been a good thing for my mental health.

        And the obligatory F Spez, F Elon.

      • andyburke@fedia.io
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        29 days ago

        Fine for me. Don’t need a lot of troll bots and junk opinions from the uninformed. 🤷‍♂️

      • Ironfist@lemmy.caEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Reddit didn’t become a giant in one day either. The more people you tell about lemmy the more people will use it.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      I moved to Lemmy since the API fiasco, almost 2 years old, I never posted/voted on reddit since. Sometimes I check some sub for their contents but never ever participate.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        29 days ago

        I tried then and it just didn’t stick for me for some reason so I crawled back to the ex with my head hung in shame. Attempt #2 is sticking though.

      • Airowird@lemm.ee
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        29 days ago

        I still go there sometimes… I only upvote porn, dark humor and shitty spelling.

        That way, the ad companies are less interested and the AI training data becomes garbage.