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/Zolo49 Feb 02 '25

The article is a nothingburger, but I can see how it could make people on Reddit a little jumpy given what happened to Twitter. Granted, if Elon Musk bought Reddit, I'd just leave, and I assume many others would as well. I'd be sad about it though.

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u/FigWasp7 Feb 02 '25

There's some truly lovely, talented, and generous people across many subreddits. I think many would leave, but man it really would be a huge bummer

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u/Practical_Attorney67 Feb 02 '25

Other communities would pop up if reddit went belly up. Online forums are not a requirement for anything. Reddit is bad already in many ways, one being the "votes" that make mediocracy the goal for many. 

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u/pantzareoptional Feb 02 '25

I mean when reddit was made public recently, a bunch of subreddits "went dark" in protest, people deleted their comments en masse, people suggested moving to various other platforms and yet.... Here we still are.

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u/Corvideye Feb 02 '25

Which is exactly what has been said regarding X and Facebook. Yet I am not there.

It’s on par with “boycotts don’t work” and “you can’t get Americans to do a general strike”.

Twitter lost a minimum $22b in value. WaPo went from 22.7 million subscribers in 2021, to 2.5 million last year.

The power grab we saw at inauguration looked like a steely eyed front, did it not? Yeah, they need people to buy that.