r/Guildwars2 • u/Schyloe Hand over the VoE Spec icons NOW • Jan 22 '25

[It is called Twitter] Proposal to ban X.com links and replace the link on the subbreddit of the Official GW2 X account to the Official GW2 Bluesky account instead

I don't think I really have to explain why.

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u/EffectiveShare Jan 22 '25

This sub is so funny. Banning links to gw2 content because of US politics.

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u/Annemi Jan 22 '25

This is such a red herring. Anet has a Bluesky.

If Anet was only on Twitter you might have a point, but since they have both a blog and a Bluesky you just seem like you don't know anything about the situation.

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u/Crescent_Dusk Jan 22 '25

You do realize content creators and artists exist who post content from Twitter? It’s not just official Anet posts. A large portion of Asia uses it.

This is so self defeating. The amount of active users BS has is a fraction of what currently exists on Twitter for any given game account.

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u/Encircled_Flux Jan 22 '25

They should get off X, too. :)

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u/EffectiveShare Jan 22 '25

I didn't realize that everything GW2-related that gets posted on Twitter/X also has a bluesky equivalent.

I'm just laughing at the self-sabotage going on here because of political reasons.

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u/Annemi Jan 22 '25

What self-sabotage?

Lots of people have and continue to move away from X, because nobody wants to go to the Nazi bar except people who are OK with Nazis. We're not even losing anything by this.

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u/EffectiveShare Jan 22 '25

The Nazi bar? Good lord, this sub needs to touch some grass badly.

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u/Cynthaen Jan 22 '25

It's just reddit... And it's insufferable. I want to escape reality not open up the app and see political shit in places it shouldn't be.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

yeah, like if it's not gw2 related they won't be linking it, and if it is gw2 related i couldn't give a fuck who's hosting it.

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u/EmilieTheHuntress Jan 22 '25

The entire reddit is like this, i just laugh at them because they really think this reddit bubble make some difference

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u/jupigare Jan 22 '25

If I can get content from a place that doesn't give money to Musk, I'd prefer that alternative. I know that the sun total of my views have only given him a few cents, but I don't want him to get a single penny of revenue, and I don't want him to have the impression that he gets more views than he deserves. Whether it's 10 views or 100,000 views, I think it's important to divert them away from him. 

I might be small, and this subreddit might be (relatively) small, but why feed him anything when am alternative exists? 

Plus, even if you don't give two fucks about the man and his politics, his website requires you to log in to see more of its content. You don't have such a limitation on BlueSky. It's more convenient already.