r/technology • u/abrownn • Feb 02 '25

Social Media Elon Musk takes aim at Reddit

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-reddit-x-links-nazi-salute-2024281
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u/CaliSummerDream Feb 02 '25

I read through the article quickly. What has Elon Musk done about Reddit exactly? Sounds like he just said “This is insane”. Maybe I missed something?

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u/tiboodchat Feb 02 '25

I’ll preface this with I have no respect for Elon and I hate his guts.

But.. Nothing. I read the whole thing at length and there’s really nothing of substance here apart from what you mentioned. The article reads like it tries to equate some subs banning X links to a Reddit wide embargo, which makes no sense considering Reddit mentioning there isn’t.

I just think the person who wrote the article doesn’t understand how Reddit is just a bunch of forums that share a common URL.. and every community is free to implement their own rules.

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u/EnvChem89 Feb 02 '25

and every community is free to implement their own rules.

Except you have mods who moderate tons of subs and push their ideology. You get odd things happening with this also like a final fantasy sub that had a ban X post as the most up voted post ever. It happened really fast also, didn't seem organic. 

Then you have the Warhammer sub where people just didn't care about Musk or X and they got called out as Nazi sympathizers for not caring and jumping on the bandwagon.

Every community is technicaly allowed to make their own rules but mods have ways of pushing specific ideology across major subs. Political posts in anime and gaming subs somehow becoming more popular than the actual subject of the sub..