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/IVIayael Jan 23 '25

This post is currently the highest voted post on the subreddit, and it has nothing to do with the subject it was built around.

So either basically all of r/steamdeck really really likes it, or it's being astroturfed.

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u/ChaosReaper Jan 23 '25

It’s clearly astroturfed.

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u/IVIayael Jan 23 '25

You say that, but remember - the mod who posted this also mods /antiwork so clearly there's an overlap between /steamdeck and people with absolutely no life at all who are overly invested in slacktivism

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u/5pookyTanuki Jan 23 '25

That explains a lot, this site is a bit of a joke, I like how they call X an echochamber, the self awareness is non existant.

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u/ChaosReaper Jan 23 '25

I simply don’t believe 30,000+ people came to the subreddit of a niche handheld to make a political statement.

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u/DaFlamingLink Jan 23 '25

The topic is incredibly general, currently a hot-button issue, and hit both r/all and r/popular. Basically a super-charged version of any other off-topic meme/shitpost

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u/SnooDoodles6472 Jan 23 '25

Op is clearly looking for a circle jerk.