Boycotting isn’t about changing the world, we all know that a couple thousand people choosing to not participate is a drop in the bucket that wont really change much in the short term.

Its not about that.

Its about putting your foot on the ground and making a personal commited choice to say ‘No.’ To not tolerate being censored and treated like stupid animals by soulless megacorps who just want to squeeze you dry.

Its about setting boundaries for yourself and what you are willing to take from who/what. Its about truly commuting to not being a mindless consumer bitch boy driven by popular trends.

My choice to delete my reddit accounts and not come crawling back to daddy spez isn’t much on its own, but its not nothing either. If enough people put their foot down and make a true effort to say no, it might just mean something in the end. Even if it doesn’t change anything in the long term, it has a personal affect on me, I know that I am strong enough to say ‘no’ and mean it indefinitely That is the true spirit of a protest.

but I doubt there will be any one-to-one direct correlation between placing a pixel and putting one more penny in scrooge mcducks dragon hoard

It indicates an ability for the site to attract eyeballs on demand. /r/place started as an experiment, it’s now just a gimmick reddit can pull out at any time to attract traffic. Being able to pull engagement like that is valuable to advertisers and therefore make the site more valuable overall.

But more importantly, I think you’re right in assuming any of us individuals using Reddit right now isn’t swinging any pendulums. That said, the overall point is everything spez is doing right now is about demonstrating Reddit’s value, the potential profit to be made, and its reach. The more people interact with the platform right now, the more active it appears, the more the protests seem irrelevant. “See? No one left. We’re as strong as ever.”

Granted, it’s probably true that reddit’s traffic is not much lower than it was, it’s just not getting the API calls anymore, but those weren’t valuable to them anyway. But at the same time, Reddit’s recent moves clearly indicate they need to keep engagement up right now. It’s all about appearances. Investors and advertisers are likely side eyeing spez a lot after the last few months and they need reassurances the site is OK. Tanking these efforts by users trolling /r/place proves that it isn’t.

It shows that they can control traffic by simply creating an event. It shows that they can still control their user base. It also shows that the issue is solely directed at Spez. I bet you’ll see him step down around the IPO (with a nice goodbye bonus) that’s my theory.

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…you need to be much more specific in what you mean here

Also, everything is part of an ideology. Even the status quo.

Even on Lemmy there’s a hard left slant.

I don’t think I’d say hard left, but probably left to some extent.

I’m actually kind of odd in that I can be hard left on some issues and hard right on others. In any case, when I make right hand comments they seem to be tolerated here. The hard left stuff I don’t agree with I just gloss over, I’m good.

When you think you have escaped ideology, you are under the effects of ideology. Think of it as a glass lens that you wear in order to make sense of the world. You think you can just take it off and see the “real world” but when you take off the glasses you don’t see anything anymore. All stimulus breaks down into meaninglessness. You need that lens in order to perceive and interact with the world.

I’m a leftist but I strongly believe in freedom of speech so I welcome all right wingers onto this platform. We can talk to each other and discuss and as long as people are being genuine in their attempt to make sense of things I think that’s totally fine.

Although I 100% agree with you we are seeing the same neoliberal “left” which is really just a center right ideology (we drop bombs on you but the plane has a trans flag on it) that is so prevalent on reddit. There’s a popular “politics” community that’s starting to look identical to /r/politics

I’m starting to start either a) I’m a schizo or b) astroturfers have already caught on to this place

I’m not even conservative, just not liberal… however I wouldn’t be caught dead watching MSNBC

The people on the right don’t go around telling people what they can or can’t say. The people on the left try to cancel everyone. Take away people’s livelihoods for very minor things that usually most people don’t even think are bad or are at most in bad taste, and they don’t mind taking things out of context either for the accusations. And the media prefers to take things out of context.

It’s going to suck when youtube starts censoring everything more than it is already.

Oh yeah you’re right about them not being able to think they could be wrong. That’s why the trans in sports thing can’t be conceded by them. Everyone with more than 2 brain cells knows it is unfair but if someone admits it is they think their arguments about everything else will collapse.

I also notice that people on the left cannot debate… they simply devolve into personal accusations or imply things about the other person or hear one thing then extrapolate in a sinister direction and claim that is what the other person said and believes.

reality today is like one of those weird future alternate reality TV show episodes.

Imagine 15 years ago saying what the issues would be in 2023 and how people and corporations and universities behave using a list of how they actually behave now, and people would have thought you’re either crazy or a comedian.

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It still needs to be constantly said since some haven’t gotten the message, stop going on Reddit. Let it go brother, you’re in a better place.

did u just compare reddit to Nazi Germany lol. I see the /s but that doesn’t even make sense here