this is actually more significant than a lot of social media protests, at least in the case of the large subreddits like r/nfl and r/nba
these are places with millions of subscribers that drive a whole lot of traffic - and may actually drive moves away from Twitter as a result
these are places with millions of subscribers that drive a whole lot of traffic - and may actually drive moves away from Twitter as a result
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Kat Tenbarge
Today I counted more than 50 subreddits that went through with banning links from X, reaching more than 40 million combined members. At least 20 million of those members were encouraged to join Bluesky, instead.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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#sports
Frustrating but I'll take it.
And not just that but hitting him where it hurts.
Both of which just robs Musk's "media" of potential audiences and thus reduces how much Musk can get his far right propaganda out and into the public conscience.
The Texas law currently under review at SCOTUS requires age verification for sites with at least one-third "sexual content," but that one-third is arbitrary - if SCOTUS says that's legit, then they can restrict 0.01% porn sites too.
I still have my account, I just haven't done anything on there since 2022 :P
"We only got 4 posts with links to x last year so there's no point"
So you're not doing the symbolic "nazis are bad" thing even though it won't affect you in any way 🤔
BlueSky has blocklists too
sports bluesky has gotten a lot better but it may really be about to take off
the top post there is currently from @shamsbot.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/strictlychristo.bsky.social/post/3lgeld2csnk2u
It's refreshing.
pros (at this moment) https://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2025/01/22/patriots-bluesky-nfl-social-media/
The subreddits normal people go did react the way normal people should thankfully