Decision: Antiwork will ban links to Twitter/X, allow screenshots (with conditions) - Detail inside - Lemmy.World
Someone posted the following, “Basically I don’t want to leave the Fediverse to
discuss a posting”. That resonated as I read it - provide enough credible
information to support a discussion here, where we are building a community. We
can link off to greater detail/depth for credible content, but we should also
have a minimum standard of discussed, verifiable information that we work to
maintain. As a community that supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease
to be required to live our lives, we should not be afraid to organize and act in
heightened moments like this. And that’s what this is, a small collective action
that could (likely not, but maybe) add up to something. Ultimately, doesn’t
change much here in the day-to-day, outside of formalizing what has happened
casually, organically over time as musk bought and performatively tanked twitter
to remove it’s power as an organizing tool against fascists/oligarchs and
Twitter investors, like the Saudis (e.g. see the Arab Spring protests and how
Twitter was key to the people in that moment). So, after considering the active
discussion from our community through the comments in this thread
[https://m.lemmy.world/profile/lemmy.world/c/antiwork/comments/24663297],
Antiwork will no longer allow links to Twitter/X, at the very least. In addition
to that main action, the following related steps will also be taken, - Will will
also ban links to Meta owned properties - Facebook, Instagram, Threads (open to
suggestion of others if we want to officially make a list of these known, low
quality sources and spreaders of misinformation, hate speech, etc through an
evolving domain list) - You may post screenshots IF THE INFORMATION IS NOT
AVAILABLE ON ANOTHER VALID PLATFORM, but screenshots must include enough
information to fully support a relevant conversation within this community and a
VISIBLE time/date stamp for posterity. PLEASE NOTE: If you are caught
manipulating content of a screenshot, your post will be removed and you will
receive an indefinite ban from this community. - We will not allow links to any
pass through/archive service that potentially feeds traffic back to these
services, directly or indirectly. Services like Xcancel/Nitter can give traffic
to Twitter/X because they still fetch that content. For those who contributed
that the voices on Twitter and other platforms discussed are too important to
lose, I’d say that there may have been a time when that was true, but at this
moment, if you have information that is ONLY sourced on twitter or one of these
dying social media platforms, then you very likely have bad information from a
person with low character and limited, if any, credibility. If you support or
have any objections, please discuss changes here for the next week. If no major
points of discussion that slow us down, we will then implement final changes to
apply going forward. I’m looking into potential automod scripts to automatically
handle these things for us, open to suggestions if any members of community are
mods in other communities that did this well or have experience otherwise.
Snapz
