On the banning of twitter links

Greetings nerdfighters,

A recent post requested a ban on links to twitter/X.com. I've spoke with the other mods. We discussed that links to twitter/X.com are incredibly rare these days, any ban would be a token gesture as there isn't a nerdfighter community there any more. I think everyone who liked that format moved to bsky a while ago.

There's a slippery slope for us mods in banning one site, because then there’ll be another and another and all of a sudden we're maintaining a list of banned sites, rather than actively moderating.

We feel like the community has a pretty good feel for what is r/nerdfighters content, and the current rules allow for appropriate removal of unrelated or inappropriate content. The mods trust that as nerdfighters on reddit we can continue with these existing rules and not forget to be awesome. As such we will not be banning any websites at the moment as we do not think it will have any noticeable impact on what will be posted, or how users are experiencing the sub.

We will continue to look to yourselves to up vote, down vote, comment, and report on content you see in this sub. You are the only reason this tiny corner of reddit exists and I'd like to thank you for that. I can't promise reddit is going to be immune to all this (gestures broadly), but we'll be around for a while yet.

However, if you do still have a twitter account, please consider deactivating/deleting it.

Also if we get a influx of asshats trying to post twitter links because we ”didn't ban it" then we'll definitely ban it with automod in a heartbeat, don't take the piss.

Best wishes,

Mods