I’m not sure if this is the best place for this post, I’m just curious to see what everybody else thinks.

It seems like a lot of communities (outside lemmy) have had enough and are banning twitter links after Elons recent Nazi salute.

  • Lenny
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    105 hours ago

    Yes. Fuck giving them traffic, and you have to log in to view parts of it anyway - screenshots are better if truly needed.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 hours ago

    No, lemmy.world should not censor itself. I can decide for myself which link I click on. If people think they have to link to Twitter, then let them do it. I will never do that and I will never follow Twitter links. But I would still like to be able to do so on principle.

  • @[email protected]
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    65 hours ago

    No. As much as I disagree with giving them traffic, they do allow for context if someone wants to divulge. Can we ban them from the main post link and have them in the description of the post?

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours ago

      I don’t have an account and musk stopped letting people without accounts read twitter links a while ago

  • @[email protected]
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    87 hours ago

    Yes. Twitter has nothing of value left to offer the world. Anyone who’s still on that platform is either not paying attention or supports neo Nazis.

  • @[email protected]
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    3310 hours ago

    Direct xitter links? Yes. Ban them. They bring no value a a screenshot couldn’t provide.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 hours ago

      Screenshots can, have been, and will be doctored. Sometimes you read somrthing so insane, you gotta check the source. Except finding anything on that shithole of a site is painful, especially if you don’t have an account, quadruply so on mobile.

      Both would be a nice compromise.

      • @Thistlewick
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        77 hours ago

        Anything worth any value on Twitter will be reported on by another source. Link to those if you want corroborating evidence. The point is to not give the Nazis the traffic at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 hours ago

          Yeah anything posted to Twitter should be taken with a massive grain of salt anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if it’s a screenshot or a direct link, it should only be considered a hint of something maybe true but never as proof.

  • Davel23
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    68 hours ago

    I’m not a .world local if that matters, but yes.

  • @[email protected]
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    1411 hours ago

    Why not just post screenshots? Not give anyone reason to accidentally give them traffic. People can still see what you wanted, win win