A lot of subreddits are banning/proposing to ban X links in response to Führer Elon’s wonderful gesture of love and tolerance. Should this instance follow suit?
Also, Instagram/Threads/Meta links. Same question.
No. Banning any kind of link is bad. People should decide themself if they want to follow a link. Extensions like the firefox extension redirector even allow to redirect to archive websites directly, to preserve sources of knowledge while avoiding the mainstream platform of the link.
Yes.
Yes.
Add youtube and, facebook to that list
I never click them anyway. If the meme isn’t wild enough to get pixelated into a shitpost gif then I don’t need to see it. Not once in my lifetime have I ever clicked a Twitter/Facebook/Instagram link and thought that the click was worth it.
Yes. Mostly because it’s difficult to view the full content without logging in, and I refuse to do that on principle. Screenshots and mirrors are fine, I just don’t think we should be generating traffic to that site.
Absolutely
Yes. Not only from Twitter, though. Spotify gave money to Trump’s inauguration. So did Google, and Amazon.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml please consider this.
I responded yes in the other thread.
I’m glad to hear
Yes please! I’d rather that platform be banned widely
I’d support it. If something is worthy of drawing attention to, it’s worth taking a screenshot and sharing that - preferably with a backup to Wayback Machine.
There’s no need to drive traffic to or engagement with X imo, even if it’s relatively minimal.
Same for Meta products really, though idk if Instagram has some defense against screenshots (I know there’s other photo-focused services that do, I’m just not on Instagram very often/recently at all so idk).
Edit: You know, given the existence of xcancel and similar services, I want to walk this back a little. People are in here making good points - screenshots can be doctored, and having access to a trusted mirrored/archived source is better for verification purposes while still accomplishing what I’d like to see. If it’s technically possible to do, some automatic means of doing that would be cool, but even that’s a bit iffy. Maybe something like that Pipedbot thing could work, even if people kinda hate those bots. Best choice is just posting mirrored/archive links from the get go.
Yes please! We’re here to get away from centralised content.
Dooooo itttt!
Yes, Musk’s Nazi propaganda machine must reach as few people as possible. The guy is dangerous to the world. Twitter is a propaganda and misinformation tool now, it is no longer a place for social interactions.
FFS i come here to lemmy to escape this censorship delirium. If you are just going to be “reddit at home” might as well have actual reddit
Yes. I think it’s ok if people use screenshots of old Twitter memes because most of them have floated around forever, but block all links.