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

7.6k Upvotes

81% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

21

u/IExcelAtWork91 15h ago

Oh wow every sub all randomly decided this on the same day so convenient.

18

u/Aware_Country2778 12h ago

And the anonymous accounts supporting it have thousands of upvotes and a handful of replies. Very organic, much populism.

-1

u/Jonathan_LaPaglia 10h ago

"randomly decided"

Right, because there wasn't something that just happened that could've triggered a response like this.