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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.

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[–] dmega@lemmy.imagisphe.re -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you should do this, so what makes you better than them? 🤷‍♂️ [About blocking pixelfed mentions on META]

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do hate speech and we don’t want to contribute to their traffic?

[–] dmega@lemmy.imagisphe.re 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What did the links do to you, and what kind of "hate speech" do they incite? Can you explain? 🤔

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Standard right wing division stuff about migrants, or foreigners, better before phones, health and safety…stuff like that. Initially I thought I could just block them, not realising that made the problem of seeing them worse cos algorithms.