IMO the protests are having an effect. I haven’t been on there for 2 days (full disclosure: was given 1 week suspension under dubious pretense while I was mass editing + deleting all my comments), but, before then there was a huge undercurrent support for the protests but a lot of outright hostile naive complaints regarding them.
At this point it feels like the majority of those that are willing to leave have left, and the rest is a dumpster fire of increased hostility. Everyone is angry for seemingly ridiculous reasons. You can’t post anything without somebody saying something absurdly contrarian within a day or 2. TBH I really think there’s a ‘instill anger’ bot program (and its replicants) running amok now and the moderators can’t (or are unwilling to) keep up with it.
I just went back to check something- I was given a permanent suspension last week with no explanation. Suddenly it’s been reversed. Something weird as fuck is going on. Oh well, fuck them. They’ve lost a power user.
I probably will eventually, but I don’t even feel like it’s worth my giving them the satisfaction of seeing my ass leave.
Anyway, I made a pinned post at the top of my profile saying that Reddit sucks and if you want me, you can find me here, which might get some more people to leave Reddit for Lemmy with any luck.
“Profile” as in the thing you see when you click on someone to see their post history or send them a DM. You can pin posts to the top of them. I don’t know how long that’s been possible for, but many years.
IMO the protests are having an effect. I haven’t been on there for 2 days (full disclosure: was given 1 week suspension under dubious pretense while I was mass editing + deleting all my comments), but, before then there was a huge undercurrent support for the protests but a lot of outright hostile naive complaints regarding them. At this point it feels like the majority of those that are willing to leave have left, and the rest is a dumpster fire of increased hostility. Everyone is angry for seemingly ridiculous reasons. You can’t post anything without somebody saying something absurdly contrarian within a day or 2. TBH I really think there’s a ‘instill anger’ bot program (and its replicants) running amok now and the moderators can’t (or are unwilling to) keep up with it.
I just went back to check something- I was given a permanent suspension last week with no explanation. Suddenly it’s been reversed. Something weird as fuck is going on. Oh well, fuck them. They’ve lost a power user.
Why not just delete?
I probably will eventually, but I don’t even feel like it’s worth my giving them the satisfaction of seeing my ass leave.
Anyway, I made a pinned post at the top of my profile saying that Reddit sucks and if you want me, you can find me here, which might get some more people to leave Reddit for Lemmy with any luck.
Reddit has profiles? I had been there so long and ignored so many of the “feature” updates.
“Profile” as in the thing you see when you click on someone to see their post history or send them a DM. You can pin posts to the top of them. I don’t know how long that’s been possible for, but many years.