Probably how a large amount of the subreddits participating in the blackout came back in a measly two days. Like Louis Rossmann said in his video describing the reddit api situation, all they see is that we’ll put up with their bullshit 363 days a year…
maybe if all subreddits participating went dark or posted meaningless content (white squares,etc) there might have been a bigger inpact.
A lot of us moved to other platforms like Lemmy though, so I wouldn’t say it was a complete failure.
That and apathy/Ignorance of the issue. Especially with the younger generation (which is the majority of reddit now).
Tried to get a few smaller subs with a lot of Zoomers in them to join me, and their response was basically “bruh, who is spez?”, “in your dreams”, or “spez isn’t a pedophile; quit making shit up”. I mean just look at this. They straight-up attacked me:
Yeah I have never heard of spez being a pedophile. Unless he’s been convicted you shouldn’t be calling him that. It could be taken as defamation.
Also I fully get why people don’t want to move. Lemmy is a great idea but it’s a work in progress with a small user base. I lost my whole account not long ago. This a community which is already fragmented from moving platforms why would they go through that hell again when Lemmy might not even pan out.
Probably how a large amount of the subreddits participating in the blackout came back in a measly two days. Like Louis Rossmann said in his video describing the reddit api situation, all they see is that we’ll put up with their bullshit 363 days a year…
maybe if all subreddits participating went dark or posted meaningless content (white squares,etc) there might have been a bigger inpact.
A lot of us moved to other platforms like Lemmy though, so I wouldn’t say it was a complete failure.
That and apathy/Ignorance of the issue. Especially with the younger generation (which is the majority of reddit now).
Tried to get a few smaller subs with a lot of Zoomers in them to join me, and their response was basically “bruh, who is spez?”, “in your dreams”, or “spez isn’t a pedophile; quit making shit up”. I mean just look at this. They straight-up attacked me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/genesiscoupe/comments/15cn0wx/i_made_a_gencoupe_community_on_lemmy_if_youre/
You can see a lot of the sunk cost feeling going on in there.
Yeah I have never heard of spez being a pedophile. Unless he’s been convicted you shouldn’t be calling him that. It could be taken as defamation.
Also I fully get why people don’t want to move. Lemmy is a great idea but it’s a work in progress with a small user base. I lost my whole account not long ago. This a community which is already fragmented from moving platforms why would they go through that hell again when Lemmy might not even pan out.