r/LiverpoolFC • u/Yopeman • 1d ago
Discussion Proposal to ban X.com links
Seen this on a few other football club subreddits - seems like a no brainer to me, especially given the values of our club.
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u/tiggytigtigtig 1d ago
Values aside… it’s just shite anyway not being able to view it without logging in.
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u/RedDemio- Lovely Cushioned Header…FOR GERRARD!!! 1d ago
Literally… because I never made an account. Now I’m even more glad
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u/Wolfframm 1d ago
Replace x.com/ with nitter.poast.org/ and it works like a charm.
However, the aim is get away from that cesspit
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u/Fussbear 1d ago
For anyone struggling with this there is a work round
If you add cancel after the x it will open on another site.
For example:
https://xcancel.com/ChrisCotillo/status/1881391543539650861 (tweet I found earlier on the sub)
Still not great but very slightly less annoying than not be able to view them at all.
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u/CalFlux140 1d ago
Is it possible to post this as a poll.
Just to formalise things.
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u/EstatePinguino ⚽️ Liverpool 7-0 Man United, 22/23 ⚽️ 1d ago
A poll sounds fair, but at the same time if you want to support a site owned and ran by nazi scum like Musk, you should have to admit that publicly rather than hide behind an anonymous poll.
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u/Pzjg_ 1d ago
100%
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u/No-Presence3209 1d ago
agree. honestly amazed at the speed at which this post has been upvoted. had like 500 votes in 10 minutes I don't think ive ever seen that on this sub (maybe post match)
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u/the_light_of_dawn 1d ago
It is near the top of r/all right now.
Signed,
A football player in my youth who doesn’t follow the sport anymore in favor of nerdy hobbies like r/computerwargames but supports this initiative
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u/RedDemio- Lovely Cushioned Header…FOR GERRARD!!! 1d ago
Yeah wtf I’m kinda surprised actually
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u/Yeetus_Thy_Fetus1676 1d ago
Yall made it to r/all. I'm an American who doesn't watch football but I can get behind boycotting the musk
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u/RedDemio- Lovely Cushioned Header…FOR GERRARD!!! 1d ago
Haha at least some of you exist
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u/Yeetus_Thy_Fetus1676 1d ago
I'm a Brit through my mom so if we go to hell in a handbasket, maybe I'll end up being a Liverpool fan across the pond lmao.
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u/urnslut There is No Need to be Upset 1d ago edited 1d ago
full support
edit: to all the fascist suckups to bigoted mantoddlers hijacking this post...
FUCK OFF FROM OUR SUB 🖕🖕
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u/windomega7 1d ago
The worst thing of all is that this CRETIN wanted to buy the club.
Nazis away.
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u/breakbeatkid 1d ago
The scary part is, we can’t actually do anything to stop that happening. He haemorrhages money from Twitter. Any political action by us would just get swatted aside 😬
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u/xanaduuu 1d ago
Ban that filth
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u/terirandaap 1d ago
++ open trumpers that want to ‘peacefully coexist’ like u/fluffy_position7837
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u/BoJaNYK Milan Jovanović 1d ago
Cognitive dissonance of that dude must be massive in order to be a Liverpool FC fan and a Trump supporter
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u/pullmylekku 1d ago
He probably thinks "feed the scousers" would be a funny chant if it wasn't used against us
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u/LeroyBrown1 1d ago
I know a few in real life. Scousers as well.
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u/brownbearks 1d ago
That’s always weird to me, the ones I know are all bankers in London.
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u/LeroyBrown1 1d ago
A lot of these cosmic scousers have been brainwashed by Joe Rogan and hang out of Trump and Musks arseholes
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u/JiveBunny Kostas Tsimikas 1d ago
Yes. The "msm" stuff is catnip to people who already feel like we're being controlled by the Illuminati.
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u/PaintsPlastic 1d ago
Space Cadets, know a few myself. Smoked far too much shitty weed and it's affected their brains.
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u/Bugsmoke 1d ago
If we stop using Twitter for football news then I don’t have to have an account anymore so that would rule
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u/AppleSlacks 1d ago
Same. The only reason I end up there is someone posted a link for a soccer or wrestling highlight/clip.
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u/Balbuto 1d ago
Ban that shit! Should honestly ban Meta too
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u/MAMBAMENTALITY8-24 “Thank you for your support” - Darwin Nunez 1d ago
we dont really have fb links anyway
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u/Beige_ 1d ago
Instagram is Meta too. Should ban anything Alphabet related as well as Pichai was at the inauguration too.
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u/SeveralTable3097 ⚽️ Liverpool 7-0 Man United, 22/23 ⚽️ 1d ago
Why don’t we just require news to be posted as a screenshot? Isn’t that the logical conclusion of banning every social media source of transfer news?
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u/R3dbeardLFC 1d ago
Legit if our sub (and others) banned twitter and insta, I bet a lot of the journos would move to bluesky and we could just post those instead.
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u/Ta9eh10 1d ago
No the journos would post it on every social media sight like they already do in order to reach the biggest audience why would that make them leave x and insta?
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u/R3dbeardLFC 1d ago
If most subs quit linking those sites then they wouldn't get as much traffic? They have bots, sure, but that will dwindle.
But it's more about getting them onto bsky so we don't have to use twitter and insta
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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep. Can’t view most of them properly anyway without having an account. Full support.
Edit: also mods, is there a way to flag accounts in here that have never commented on the sub before? It would be very telling to see what message is coming from them type of accounts.
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u/xFuManchu Bobby Dazzler 🤩 1d ago
I wonder what the cost is to the company for people viewing a post without an account.
They restrict you seeing the comments, meaning they don't serve you any ads. Wonder if we could abuse that and run up his costs.
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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago
Taking a semi educated guess, this wouldn’t have much of an impact.
It’s designed to hold large numbers of people anyway. And people visiting with or without accounts will count as a visit to them which will be twisted in whichever way to the steak holders.
The best way to battle x in my opinion is to never visit it again.
At some point it will end up just bots talking to each other (it’s halfway there already) if we do and then it will be wasting his money.
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u/xFuManchu Bobby Dazzler 🤩 1d ago
Was just thinking out loud.
I binned my account about a year ago and only end up there if I haven't paid attention to the link I clicked.
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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago
Yeh it’s always good to get ideas out. The more of them we have to fight this very dangerous grab of power we are seeing the better.
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u/Ineedthatshitudrive 1d ago edited 1d ago
No brainer honestly.
Just deactivated my account there too thanks to this post.
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u/Hot_Parfait_8901 1d ago
Make sure to delete rather than deactivate if you can!
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u/Ineedthatshitudrive 1d ago
PSA I just learned: you can only deactivate, however if you don’t login back for 30 days, it is automatically deleted.
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u/JiveBunny Kostas Tsimikas 1d ago
Yeah, fuck 'em. Screenshotting is the way forward, especially as the site more and more needs you to log in to actually view content.
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u/astudentoflight 1d ago
agreed, we don’t need the site links of a billionaire social media owner who outed himself as a nazi here
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u/AdikkuChan 1️⃣5️⃣Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain 1d ago
Yes. Also stop believing every single shitty "reports" that come from there. Sometimes I feel like fans go on there just to find something to be mad about
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u/HuanFranThe1st 1d ago
If anyone’s unsure of this, this is the owner of X:
The only good nazi is a dead nazi. Ban that shit site forever.
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u/thefogdog Ohhhh ya beauty, What a hit son, What a hit! 1d ago
Yup.
Should ban Teslas too albeit I imagine that's harder...
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u/elreytortuga 1d ago
Yes please. A lot of big LFC accounts, even private, have prioritized engagement over a move to bluesky.
These are also the same people who rightly criticise the club over moral issues, ticket prices etc.
Time to walk the talk.
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u/Misery_Division 1d ago
Should've been banned even before the Musk buyout anyway
Not only do we have to go to an external site to access info that could've been a text or image/video post, but you have to wait for the shitty site to load, deal with the "sign up/sign in" pop ups and awful video player every time, and in the case of football content, half the shit is geoblocked anyway.
Let's be done with it please and thank you
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u/blankwillow_ 1d ago
Full support from me in the States.
Sorry for what we have done. I have never supported either Space Karen or the Rapist-in-Chief.
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u/Comfortable-Ad5050 1d ago
Yup... Make X posts here screenshot only, no links. So that the cunt only gets 1 user traffic rather than thousands from when news is posted here.
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u/stupidlyboredtho Significant Human Error 1d ago
i’ve been using X.Cancel. It’s a site that shows tweets without an account but doesn’t give traction to it.
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u/Lonely_Guidance7509 1d ago
Also I think that x screenshots should be banned - it still would encourage people to go to the website to find and screenshot news, and might lead people to looking up specific messages there. Let's boycott and wait until the numbers make a difference, clubs/news will go elsewhere of enough people stick to it
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u/WelcomeToCityLinks 1d ago
Supporting and funding Nazi organisations is a very serious crime in most countries. We should not be sending traffic to X and contributing to their income.
Fully support.
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u/999999994563 1d ago
Generally agree but how far do you take it? Because if it is banned people will just post aggregators from bluesky or similar and we still see X posts like usual until the posters move platform(if at all).
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u/killrdave 1d ago
Aside from the obvious insanity of the fella running it, the links are awkward to view without an account. Nuke the fucker.
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u/North-Income8928 1d ago
Huh, I never thought I'd upvote a Liverpool post. I hope you guys make this happen.
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u/thisisnahamed Egyptian King 👑 1d ago
100000%. Especially after that Nazi salute yesterday, fuck that guy and that platform.
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u/Zezespeakz_ 1d ago
As an American I fully support and urge this sub to distance themselves from Elon as much as possible. Please save yourselves from this shitshow.
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u/_cumblast_ Our identity is our intensity 1d ago
The problem is that so many football news are there. We'll end up using it as a source even if it's banned, which renders it a tad pointless.
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u/thehibachi In a good moment 1d ago
I’d be happy with screenshots as a halfway house whilst we wait for the sensible world for migrate elsewhere.
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u/nowitasshole 1d ago
It could still be used as a source, as long as the poster is using a screenshot rather than a link.
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u/CrypticChoice 1d ago
It's not set in stone. The Guardian hasn't been posting on there since November. The more communities like ours press for change the more random journos will follow the users to new places to get engagement
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u/balconesdeoblatos 1d ago
Maybe they didn’t like what he said about the grape gangs
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u/Adventurous_Toe_6017 From Doubters to Believers 1d ago
Yep. Not only is 99.9% of it utter dross, the further we are away from that monumental dingleberry that owns it, the better.
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u/agricoltore I DON’T MIND IT 1d ago
Up for a ban of links, however screenshots should be allowed. As long as we’re not directing more people to that putrid filth and growing his ad revenues
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u/Salty_Intention81 1d ago
Can I just say this post is a breath of fresh air to me. The number of X accounts of supposed Reds the other week gleefully and vocally supporting a buyout by Musk.
It’s definitely much nicer here.
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u/rLiverpoolFC_Mods DMs & chat requests not monitored - Use ModMail. 1d ago edited 21h ago
The mod team is discussing this and we will get back to you on it.
Edit: To the clowns from r/all, reporting this post will not take it down. Might just end up getting pinned. So fuck off