5d ago

The biggest PC gaming subreddit [r/rpcgaming] has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior

www.pcgamer.com The biggest PC gaming subreddit has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior

The 'distasteful' behavior presumably references the hand gesture he delivered at yesterday's inauguration.

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I wonder how long till Reddit admins get pissy over blocking the nazi site.
- Huffman is just another american technology oligarch. It is in his interest to spread corruption and undermine rule of law.
  
  Are you joking about him being a robot or what?
- Spez was complimenting Twitter, so its not out of the question.
  
  Inb4 even more "fuck u/spez" spam happens.
- I doubt they'll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don't want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

If Reddit gamers are calling someone else ‘hateful’ and ‘toxic,’ you know it’s got to be bad.
- Yeah, I'm not usually someone who's anti-Reddit (in terms of the users, at least)...but the first sub I blocked was r/gaming, and the most negative users I ever interacted with were on r/AnimalCrossing and r/Nintendo.
  
  I don’t understand how animal crossing players could be so negative lol
  
  Lmao what happened? I only ever had good experiences on those subs but then again I haven’t used Reddit in a few years

To be clear: It wasn't the behavior of X or Musk over the past year that caused this, when he was already clearly being a Nazi pushing Nazi propaganda, it was the Nazi Salute.
I'm glad people are finally blocking X and I'll take wins where we can get them, but this should have happened a long time ago.
The behavior of X did not change after his salute, it was already operating as a Nazi platform. My opinion of Musk didn't change after seeing his Nazi salute, I already knew he was a fascist supporting the fascist party. My only surprise was that he was already willing to say it louder for the people in the back that he's a Nazi.
It's so frustrating that people are so unwilling to call fascists fascists until they go completely mask off. Musk can exhibit every Nazi behavior and people keep using X no problem, but it's the fucking salute that gets them to finally block the platform.
So do people hate Nazis because of what they stand for? Or do they just hate the Nazi salute? Because by all available information it's the salute that might get someone in trouble, all the other behaviors get ignored or excused.
- I didn't think I was still capable of being shocked but the nazi salute at the president's podium did actually shock me a little. They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more. I would hope that this shit makes people avoid musk-related products like they're a rabid rottweiler. I kinda feel bad for people who bought a Tesla years ago though. Also, spaceX has to be a national security issue now.
  
  They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more
  They're still trying to pretend:
  Alternative explanations for the gesture are plausible. Musk is socially awkward, and he may have been stiffly trying to throw love to the crowd for helping put Trump back in office. “My heart goes out to you,” he said after he did the gesture a second time.
  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/
- He’s financing AfD and has agreed with tweets that Jewish people are trying to dovide the white race. He’s as fascist as fascists can be.
- mask off, musk on

They really take the PoE cheating seriously.
- What's PoE? Other than Power over Ethernet, of course.
  
  Elon did a live stream playing the new Path of Exile game. His character was one of the top 20 ranked in the game. He has bragged about being the best on several games. Anyway, it was obvious to everyone watching that he knew very little about how the game actually worked. He finally confessed this week that he pays other people play the character for him, but also claimed that all the top players do it.
  
  Path of Exile?
- He targeted gamers!

They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I've seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.
It's sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.
- r/republican is melting down over the removal/no more Twitter links thing
  
  Really, what don't those people melt down over. They're reactionaries, they by essence have to melt down over everything.
  
  Fuck em.
- It's not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
  
  Didn't nitter shut down like 2 years ago or something
  
  Or those who don't want to see it but aren't technical or motivated enough to fix it themselves

reddit replacing mods in 3 ... 2 ...

Uh-oh, reddit also deleted a top comment for recommending Lemmy - are they Good or Evil? Binary thinker brains asplode!

Ah, the landed gentry is overstepping their boundaries again.

...and what is Reddit?
- A miserable pile of secrets
  
  insert screenshot of several entire threads of scrubbed comments
- Bad, but not nearly Twitter bad.
  
  Reddit had communities dedicated to pedos and an incredibly toxic Trump community long before Twitter started getting a bad rep.
- What is love?
  
  Baby don't hurt me

I thought the biggest PC gaming sub was /r/pcmasterrace ?
- They had to shutdown because master race was in the title.
- It is

Good.

They’ll block x for a week and will go right back to using it.
- Yeah, if they were serious about this kind of thing, they wouldn't be on Reddit anymore in the first place.

Rpcgaming is the biggest? Never heard of it
- I do all my gaming through Remote Procedure Calls.
  
  For when playing Nethack over telnet just has unacceptable protocol overhead, it's time to bust out some RPC.
  
  Thank God it's not just me