this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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This got reported as being not twitter or equal. I'm kind of on the fence about this. I see their point, but the original was twitter. Please tell me what you think in the comments, not just downvote or upvote. This will guide me in the future if we have any more posts like this.
We need to keep the cycle going. Remove the post, so that OP can make their own fuck this I'm done post.
Do whatever, ruleslawyering is not helpful. Is the community enjoying it? It stays. Is it detrimental? It gets removed. The "rules" should be more like guidelines to suggest to posters what type of content the intent of the community is, not what type of content is permissible.
Is someone posting vaguely in the direction of the intent of the community? That would be good enough for me.
Anyone trying to separate posts into increasingly niche communities (like the asinine dontdeadopeninside and nosafetysmokingfirst split on reddit) is not helping the community of posters and lurkers.
I totally agree. Rules number 1, 4, and 5 are the most important, in my opinion. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be rules in the communities; there definitely should be rules. Guidelines for what to post instead of what not to post will probably be more beneficial.
I don’t tend to think of wpt as specifically twitter posts. Maybe that’s how it started, but over time it has become a more generalized “screenshots of short text posts” type of thing in my mind. The “or similar” in the rules leaves a lot of ambiguity, but in my mind Twitter was always about short text posts, so any short text posts would fall under that “similar” umbrella. I wouldn’t object to seeing something from Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit being posted here as long as it was a text post and not super long, so it feels disingenuous to complain about a Lemmy post being here.
Especially since, twitter isn't even twitter anymore. And the only thing you are going to get from what twitter has become is ragebait, bots, and racism. For "whitepeopletwitter" to continue and not end up dying from lack of content, it needs to start opening up to other sources that stick with the same idea as what twitter used to supply.
I think it's the mod reason for removing that the person who reported it had a problem with.
It probably shouldn't be allowed in the future, but given that it has > 300 up-votes and is only now spurring a finer definition of the rule, I think it warrants an exception. If OP reads this, they now know to post this kinda thing in a different community in the future. But removing this particular post seems a little harsh.
Edit: This is an awesome approach to moderation btw. People like you make lemmy great, thank you!
I was searching for a community to post it, but I couldn't find any. This one seemed closer to the idea l, a post where it says something. I also think I saw a photo from Facebook in this community, so...m Maybe we need a community about posts like these, but not twitter.
You can post it in my community. Or Lemmy Shitpost. Here's a link:https://lemmy.world/c/itsashitworld
Is there a lemmydrama like subredditdrama? Maybe a fedidrama community would work. I don't know if one exists yet
I havent read the rules of the comm. but ive always perceived whitepeopletwitter as a place to post text based social media screenshots.
People like this need to accept and understand that we don't want to talk about US politics everywhere, all the time.
It should be in YPTB, but they’ll just use that as more proof of their “outrage”.
Fighting to remove as many posts as possible on Lemmy when we barely get any posts at all doesn't make sense; ignore the people requesting you take a popular post down for some potential technicality.
You’re right.
I’m going to start posting my gunpla in cooking communities because we need content.
We have trolls here too. I'm okay if they take a hike, lol.
As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I'm not sure what this means
Yes, that's what I mean. It was on a twitter like site.
Sounds fine to me, if this is a picture of a Twitter-like site then I don't really see an issue
I am not sure how this changes the "the post was against the states rules which are there for a reason and the mod was the absolute most gentle about it" facts.
Did I get the facts wrong?
I don't see the original. All I see are Lemmy related images and that, to me, doesn't belong here.