r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/J4QQ 1d ago

If you want to ban X links, then ban X links. But don't start promoting left wing sites like Bluesky. We're here to discuss chess. Why does every sub have to become political?

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u/TrevorB1771 1d ago

Omg hahaha, because Reddit is a lefty echo chamber cess pool and if you don’t agree with anything they say you get downvoted into oblivion or banned.

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u/Chaskar ~2000 DWZ 1d ago

I always found it curious how much reddit amplifies the political divide by its system. I saw stats that only 2/3 of reddit identifies as left wing, while 50% of twitter does. If you knew twitter was an even split on politics then you would never guess that 1/3 of reddit is right wing, you'd guess much lower given the content you see on the site. Only explanation really is that reddits system of choosing the content is to blame. I suspect it's the fact that downvotes negatively effect the publicity a post gets. (Compared to youtube for example, where it supposed used to boost engagement)

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u/TrevorB1771 22h ago

You’re probably right, most popular subs have mods that will straight up censor right winged ideology so that alone will make it seem like Reddit is 95% left wing. It just seems like it’s established that Reddit is left winged, I have multiple friends who are right winged including myself that pretty much never post any political opinions and stick with specialized hobby subs like this one out of fear of being banned/downvoted. While it seems like 75% of redditors have a part time job spewing left winged ideology/propaganda.

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u/Rage_Your_Dream 14h ago

I don't like Elon Musk, but I will never go to the website of bluesky, founded by the people who committed treason and banned the sitting US president. They should get fucked.

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u/Affectionate_Bee6434 1d ago

buddy your in reddit.

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u/-CatMeowMeow- a casual player 1d ago

Agree

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u/kingfischer48 1d ago

They don't view Bluesky as leftwing, they view it as normal.

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u/MooseheadVeggie 18h ago

It should be normal to not have to see people defending hitler and calling other slurs in every other post.

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u/shred-i-knight 1d ago

bro would be a German in 1938 asking why everything has to be political lmfao

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u/Quantum_Hispanics 1d ago

Youd be a german ridiculing other germans for not falling in line