I joined Reddit mostly because of one specific game focused community. When they went private during the protest and migrated to Lemmy, I followed suit. While Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of the functions Reddit had, I like it here more and want to stay.

After reading a bit about the protest, it resonated with me and in an attempt to support it I deleted my 7 year old account with all the content on it.

Now, I found out the said community will be opening their Subreddit again in a few days. They will keep their Lemmy instance open but I feel like the majority of people will return to Reddit because there’s years of content there already while they would have to build everything from scratch here.

I respect their decision but I feel fucking betrayed and need to went. Sorry if I chose the wrong place to do so.

Update: Not that anyone cares but it all went pretty much as I predicted. As soon as the subreddit re-opened the Lemmy community completely died. Even the mods don’t bother posting latest patch notes.

  • @[email protected]
    12•1 year ago

    I believe most if not all subreddits specified the period to go dark. I’d count on thier statement even if they said for good since reddit managment can override their promise.

    Do your part and start the sub here. They might engage if they see content being posted.

    • SentielOP
      7•1 year ago

      I see. Then I misunderstood the goal of the protest. It was my understanding that to show the disagreement with the API pricing changes subreddits will go dark for a specified period of time to show the scope of the support this sentiment has, and if nothing will change, they will remain dark or take more drastic steps.

      If you organise a protest in your workplace and the management doesn’t budge to your demands, the usual next step is a mass leave of the employees.

      I was expecting the same to happen here because otherwise I see no point of going dark in the first place.

      Of course, Reddit can override this and reopen the subs, which is when you just mass delete everything or replace it with gibberish.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        I see where you’re coming from. Some even said they would go dark indefinitely. However, as I understood from another post, that reddit admins removed mods and reopend subs.

        I think they wanted to stop/delay reddit going IPO by scaring potential buyers or force management to eliminate this concept in the near future.