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.

    • Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      46·
      7 days ago

      Welcome! I came over during the api shutdown, I mained lemmy for a year, waffled back and forth the last few months. Reddit is such garbage, I dont even recognize it anymore. Its just those few niche subs that got me back but its not worth it.

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          4·
          6 days ago

          Sadly there is still no good replacement for /r/steroids and /r/drugs over here. Maybe I need to take things into my own hands, but I’m not really interested in building up these communities from the ground up.

    • Anivia@feddit.org
      2·
      6 days ago

      There is still a few niche subreddits I “need” to visit Reddit for, but I at least try to stay away from /r/all and browse Lemmy instead

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 days ago

        Much better to be kinda effective and it works for you than try to be perfect and fail :)

  • __Goblin@lemmy.caEnglish
    74·
    7 days ago

    This is what brought me to lemmy after getting threatened to be banned for up voting anti trump and musk post. Fuck trump, fuck musk and fuck spez. Fucking goofs.

      • __Goblin@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        7 days ago

        Yeah I refuse to support nazi supporters. Spez has done some dumb shit over the years but this was the final straw. I’ve only been here about a week but it already seems like a much better environment.

      • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
        6·
        7 days ago

        Same, I started looking for alternatives after getting threatened for upvoting. What actually pushed me to join here though was getting a three day ban. Both times they falsely claimed it was for “violent content”. Apparently wrongthink is violence.

      • __Goblin@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        7 days ago

        Thanks, I’ve really been enjoying it. I was on redd it for about 12 years and it won’t be missed.

        • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
          7·
          7 days ago

          14 years invested at Reddit and the latest bans and bs moderation was the last straw for me. Spent a whole day hand deleting all of my comments and posts and subsequently my account. Fuck Spez. Asskisser and right wing sympathetic.

          • __Goblin@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            7 days ago

            That’s a long time, but we can’t stop someone else from being a spineless fuck so best to move on. With enough of us leaving hopefully they’ll start to feel it.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            im glad at least the 10years ive been using ublock origin denying them ads at least.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      7 days ago

      they probably do it with anti-israeli posts too, right now its an all time high. and the noise of anti-dem/biden posts suddenly disappeared over the gaza conflict.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    56·
    7 days ago

    So Mr Free Speech just forced a 3rd party to restrict free speech like he does on his free speech platform. Fucking hypocrite.

    AND here’s proof /u/spez is a fucking pussy.

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
    67·
    7 days ago

    Reddit, or at least the subs I frequented, is a cesspool of russian trolls and bots. I made the apparent mistake of calling a couple of trolls out in the r/Europe sub and asked why they weren’t in Kursk, and pffft…permanent ban from all of reddit for “inciting violence”. I think my blood pressure has improved since then, tbh.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          15·
          7 days ago

          It was legitimately funny, when it was still a joke. The memes were good. There was no way that idiot was going to be a serious contender. It was all in good fun.

          At least until someone would say, “you know this is just a joke, right?” Any kind of self-awareness was banned within seconds. Now I don’t know if you’re familiar with volunteer moderators, but it’s pretty rare that they catch that kind of volume 24 hours a day within seconds.

          I fully believe there were state-level troll farms operated by a hostile foreign government moderating that subreddit.

          … and now they’re applying that to the entire site.

          • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            9·
            7 days ago

            I know the UK sub took a hard right turn shortly before the election and it was almost an overnight change

            • Serinus@lemmy.world
              31·
              7 days ago

              Honestly, I don’t think Lemmy, or any other anonymous social media can really counter this. Outside of heavy moderation in the opposite direction, anyway, which doesn’t feel great.

              It’s just too easy for hostile governments to spin up as many dozens of accounts as they need to argue against you, argue on your side (but badly), and simply just drown you out. It doesn’t take much of that for real people to retreat. Why would you post an opinion that you know is going to immediately get shit on by a dozen “people”?

              • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                6 days ago

                hostile govt, mainly russ can steal or just make hundreds of acct at a time, they also easily evade reddit bans to spam.

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              west coast subs also got astroturfed by the right, the way they act is a goody two shoes type of comments.

            • drthunder@midwest.socialEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              City and state subs tend to be really bad, I guess because if you’re looking to influence people it’s an obvious place to start. I swore off my city subreddit after a barrage of “this is it, I’m done with the Democrats” after the local George Floyd riots knocked over some statues that were about equality. It was probably astroturfing but beyond frustrating either way.

              • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                6 days ago

                my west coast one got turned into a conservative subs. when people were asking about things like jury duty and fare evasion/traffic tickets, they all act lik oh you shouldnt done this or that, you should know better.

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              conservatives subs being the obvious one. WOrldnews is co-opted by israeli trolls mostly. i see them leak into pics alot so i just report them. r/politics is half and half.

          • drhodl@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 days ago

            That would not surprise me in the slightest. Drumph had a lot of help, starting with those fucking “actors” who cheered him as he descended the golden elevator. He certainly didn’t get there based on merit LOL.

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              MSM, SOCIAL media practically made him on the news 24/7 for the last, the only time people had clarity from his madness was when mr luigi shot the CEO, and the MSMs and social media was freaking out that the class war is finally gaining attention against them, then they reorientated themselves and the masses were re-distracted again.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      i think 2 years ago, someone posted that half reddit comments were subs, politics and news probably is made a large percentage of trolls. alot of people were/including me were criticizing some of news/article sources as being from pure russian backed sources.

  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world
    51·
    7 days ago

    Imagine being literally the richest man on earth and using your influence to delete mean comments that people wrote about you on the internet.

    • WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 days ago

      I use to go around talking shit on reddit. Not trolling, just being completely blunt to stupid people. I found myself doing this more and more. It wasn’t until they banned me that I realized… it’s not me. The people on reddit are getting more and more dumb and annoying every day because reddit is going down. A lot of good people left with the API change and more are leaving now. Reddit is dead. Time for Lemmy.

      • Omega@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        Some of my favorite subs would have a total meltdown, like end of the world shit, because it closed for 24 hours. Then when the app bans happened, there were the blackouts and once again, people were angry at the audacity of the mods not being submissive.

        They want their content above literally anything else. Take it away for a moment and their entire world collapses. And when you see the all consuming, brain-dead, content they were viewing, AND THE IMPORTANCE THEY PUT ON IT, it’s no wonder why they have the reputation they do. That was very sobering.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          thier too addicted to certain subs, the main ones are politics, news(adjacent subs of these 2), entertainment, and sports. every other subs is neglible impact.

          • Omega@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            The two worst reactions that I saw were gaming and NFL. You’re right that most of the subs were fine. It’s the big ones that were addictive to a point I didn’t realize until something happened.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        same thing here, i was reminding that thier info was outdated, and other stuff,and i started reporting more, then that also increased and i was getting banned around the same time.

    • drhodl@lemmy.world
      10·
      7 days ago

      Haha I connected that addy to a bot at https://mailbait.info/run and sent him a few thousand emails a day of what I imagine his interests were. I’m sure he found all the links to personal escort services, nude beach satellite imagery, mammalian genital enhancement, one way vacations and STD diagnosis and treatment all very useful.

      • BelgXL@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        7 days ago

        Haha that’s amazing! If your interested i got an full list of all email addresses of the Doge team, but I can’t post pictures in the comments yet, my account is not old enough. [email protected] this is the adress of “Big Balls”

        • drhodl@lemmy.world
          5·
          7 days ago

          My PC and internet bandwidth have limits, you know :) I will run Big Balls for a bit though…

      • Wren@lemmy.worldM
        4·
        7 days ago

        I did the same to VoteBlue for spamming the shit out of me every day since before the election.

  • GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 days ago

    Yep got a temp 3 day ban on reddit just saying that let’s hope the masked police don’t mess up with someone who has conceal carry license… that is all I said, then boom temp ban.

    Reddit is compromised.

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    7 days ago

    Last time I signed up for Reddit it asked me to pick some of my top interests. One of the options was Elon Musk.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 days ago

      Not at all surprizing. Spez thinks he’s an upcoming Elon-like genius and wants to surround himself with like-minded techbros, but he’s actually a massive Musk bootlicker.

      • PaleRider@feddit.uk
        6·
        7 days ago

        Not at all surprizing. Spez thinks he’s an upcoming Elon-like genius and wants to surround himself with like-minded techbros, but he’s actually a massive Musk bootlicker fucking knobhead.

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    US Tech need to start relocating. I emailed Warp Shell creators advising I’d reluctantly cancelled my subscription to their actually excellent product; because funding the US economy had become ‘morally incompatible with my workflow’. Hope others can do similar.