It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back.

“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”

Surprise! Our great ‘X’ CEO has brought back one more bad thing that we hated about twitter 1.0: Shadowbanning. And they’ve given it a new name: “Freedom of Speech, Not Reach”.

Perhaps the new approach by X is an improvement? At least they would “politely” tell you when you’re being shadow banned.

I think freedom of speech implies that people have the autonomy to decide what they want to see, rather than being manipulated by algorithm codes. Now it feels like they’re saying, “you can still have your microphone… We’re just gonna cut the power to it if you say something we don’t like”.

Lowered_lifted,
@Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world avatar

Someone predicted that they were going to slowly add back all the stuff they took out and they were right

OskarAxolotl,

I think most people could have predicted that. Most of the things Musk removed were there for a reason (Regardless of whether they where popular with Twitter’s users or not). Mostly of economical or legal nature. You cannot simply remove them if you want Twitter to someday make a profit.

Pratai,

Why are there people still using that garbage? It’s fucking hilarious watching everyone complain about twitter, YouTube, etc and then continue using it.

acutfjg,

Stop calling it X

pachrist,

But when you’re looking for a crap company and platform that’s always been bad, but is also, surprisingly, somehow now much worse, X marks the spot.

drcabbage,

Oh no… Anyway

dangblingus,

I mean, it was never about free speech. It was always about crippling a powerful communication tool that had been used to undermine Middle Eastern governments. “Free Speech” was just how Musk was able to curry favor with fascists and grift retards into paying for twitter blue.

klyde,
@klyde@lemmy.world avatar

What are you even quoting bro

anarchy79,

I was onboard until I read your comment. What is he even quoting bro?

bytor9,

Everyone complaining or saying leave but nobody talking about alternatives that solve some of the problems. Mastodon exists. Nostr exists. BlueSky kind of exists.

vokkez,

The problem with the alternatives is there’s no draw to any of these sites. Like people aren’t going to Mastodon because it has some amazing features that everyone wishes Twitter had, they’re going because they don’t like Musk.

There’s so much on Twitter that these other sites don’t have that it’s hard to justify leaving. There are so many politicians, reporters, athletes and teams, bands, artists, etc all on Twitter. I follow hockey pretty closely and every major trade that happened last season was first reported on Twitter. Will I get that breaking news on Mastodon? No, so what is the draw to Mastodon? What does the average user get out of moving over?

What do content creators get out of moving? An artist can have years of their work on their account as a portfolio to draw new fans and get work, but if they move none of those posts show up on Mastodon. Now they have to post their entire portfolio again, and that doesn’t even guarantee that their audience will follow them. Now they’re on a much smaller website with a much smaller audience and they’re probably not going to get the same exposure or opportunities that they had when on Twitter.

Arsenal4ever,

It is a for profit place that has always put reach before speech. For-profit places are not bastions of free speech, they are bastions of making decisions that make them more money.

infyrin,
@infyrin@lemmy.world avatar

Another obligatory ‘why the fuck are you still on there, go and leave’ comment here.

Grant_M,
@Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

masterofn001,

The only thing absolute about Elmo is being a cuck.

ChicoSuave,

Elmu!

Still, (edited )
@Still@programming.dev avatar

so this is why those shithole accounts have been showing up on my for you page.

xc2215x,

So much for that free speech he was talking about.

masterofn001,

"Free speech absolutist"®©™

(Terms and conditions apply)

q47tx,
@q47tx@lemmy.world avatar

“Freedom of speech, not reach”

TheDramaLlama,

it’s not a revolution if you don’t wind up where you started

Earthprototype,

I don’t give a fuck about Twitter, stop posting this garbage already!

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