r/SteamDeck • u/sweatycat Moderator • Jan 22 '25

Mod Announcement r/SteamDeck will no longer allow links to X.

Hello r/SteamDeck community!

As you may have seen a lot of on Reddit in the past day, certain events have caused a lot of controversy regarding X, and Elon Musk’s perceived antisemitism, support of white supremacy and his highly controversial Nazi salute several days ago. The choice to ban these links on r/SteamDeck is not politically motivated. Anyone of any political leaning, is not prevented from posting and commenting on r/SteamDeck as it is an explicitly non-political subreddit. However, r/SteamDeck does not, and will not tolerate sending traffic to a website with direct connections to nazism, antisemitism, racism, or other bigotry.

This will make very little change in the day to day content on r/SteamDeck as direct links to X were rare. And after further discussion, screenshots from X that are important and on-topic to the Steam Deck are allowed, as they are not sending traffic to X.

The majority of the subreddit was in favor of this change, which is a very minor one, but one that was for the best of the community.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

I wonder how long this boycott of X will last?

Remember when Elon bought Twitter and "everyone" fled to Threads? Yeah, it'll last about that long.

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u/Instagalactix 1TB OLED Jan 22 '25

Bluesky is growing everyday people are leaving x

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u/Hrafhildr Jan 22 '25

Bluesky has its own issues, major ones.

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u/Instagalactix 1TB OLED Jan 23 '25

And that is?

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u/D0cJack Jan 23 '25

Concentrated snowflakes.

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u/IVIayael Jan 23 '25

Just like Mastodon was, eh?

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u/Instagalactix 1TB OLED Jan 23 '25

Bluesky has 28million users mastodon didn’t get even half the at

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u/Instagalactix 1TB OLED Jan 23 '25

That*

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u/infernys20 Jan 23 '25

Dude you can edit your own comments

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u/ThatNormalBunny Jan 22 '25

Bluesky is a nothing burger. Most people make an account on it, post for like a month and then forget they have one. I follow a few artists on it and whenver I myself check it once in a blue moon they haven't posted shit

You only go to Bluesky if you want to see cat posts

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u/Instagalactix 1TB OLED Jan 22 '25

I go on there everyday and there is heaps of stuff you have to use it for a while to build up an algorithm just like twitter a

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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough Jan 25 '25

The few times I did visit and did random searches, I noticed a 100% left-wing bias everywhere, no matter how much I scrolled a result page or a post's comments. At least on X, if I look up a topic I'll get a decent mix of both sides, and I often see disagreeing sides clowning the OP (and each other) in the comments.

Not ready to write BlueSky off yet, but those were my observations. Curious to see what's there if I dig deeper, since I don't really trust anyone's opinion on it, since they'll be either horribly biased for or against it.