This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.
When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.
If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.
“This thing does not affect me directly, so clearly its everyone else who is overreacting.”
Except it literally does affect them, they’re literally the ones throwing tantrums and whining about how mods and others ruined the subs, without a hint of irony.
Lol I’m sorry but these people are idiots. Who shills for rich corporations and lives a happy life?
IDK man, I want to understand them but I can’t.
Just looked at some of those accounts and they’re less than 2 years old. My guess is, they never used anything other than the official app so to them, nothing will change. Honestly, let reddit keep those users. I’d rather have a conversation with someone who doesn’t have the attention span of a TikTok user.
Lol, in this kinds of threads there is always the bitter milennial, that can bare that times change.
because surprise! those kind of users are here as well! (like me :0 )
Like just because someone is not an elder person will be in favour of corporate fuckery?
Look I am one, but think it is bitter millennials that joined Reddit ten years ago and want old Reddit and working apps. The new new generation are used to new Reddit and corporate millennials are elders now.
I think that it would vary by other demographics, too. I don’t personally know any other people around my age (Older Gen Z) who still use reddit, especially after all of this went down. I understand that my personal experience is only one out of billions, so I’m also not necessarily saying that you’re wrong about that either.
I don’t know, I guess I just wanted to reassure you that not all of the new new generation is following reddit blindly. Many of us are strongly protesting over the principal of how reddit treats their mods and users. Many posters don’t feel the need to include their ages, so I’m not sure we can get a fully accurate read on the age groups just yet.
Nothing is too big to fail.
I’m a Gen Z, cheers
I know, it still is sad, the news about Sync for Reddit coming to Lemmy (Sync for Lemmy) helps with the saddens though.
Omg me too. I know they are just human, and are susceptible to the same crap logic I am, but I can’t put myself there. My only thought, is that they just don’t know. The more you know, the harder you have to work, to maintain some kind of engagement in your life to feed the monster you created in your head. These people are fine floating, and tbh, I envy them AND pity them simultaneously.
richcorporationsReddit never has made a profit. So… they’re not rich.
I’m not sure that shilling for a poor corporation makes things much better though.
Lol. They feel very strongly.
I’m pretty sure they did. Years before they used to disclose how many server uptime hours were paid for by Reddit gold. Nowadays they hide all that info so they are no longer accountable.
These type of people can stay on Reddit for all I care. Just like how all the racist conspiracy boomers stayed on Facebook and similar things happen with Twitter right now as well.
And you thought those websites couldn’t get worse LMAO.
Lol, gone full time Lemmy now. I do not miss Reddit! Let them have the Reddit they want. The corpo Reddit under spez, the kind of guy who doesn’t care about the user, just the bags of money he sleeps on at night.
It is so cringe to defend CEOs.
The sad reality is most normal people are like this…
The number one greatest argument against democracy
I always thought democracy got off a bit too easy after WW2…
But with that exception I think democracy has mostly kept politics from careening off too far in the communist or fascist direction.
Nevertheless, the result safe, stable, but very mediocre. By the retarded, of the retarded for the…
With how much meddling the US did in the 20th century with CIA coups and such, I question how much of the bad reputation of communism is due to that. I think the common view of the bad parts of communism and fascism are really issues with authoritarianism and concentration of power.
Look at how the US was around 1900. Take for example the shirtwaist fire. When you are locked in a building that is on fire, the least of your concern is whether it is a rich and powerful asshole that works directly for the government or a rich and powerful asshole that owns the factory and owns the politicians through bribery, lobbying, campaign contributions, etc. If you aren’t familiar with the business plot, capitalists tried to overthrow the US government in the 1930s and turn it some sort of fascist regime.
The down side to democracy is that when times get rough, a strong man shows up with the answer and a scapegoat, usually an already marginalized group, if they only have the power to fix everything, and the next thing you know people just voted themselves into that authoritarian regime out of desperation or fear.
About all we can do is squash FUD and misinformation as it pops up. Unfortunately, in this game of whack-a-mole, it takes more time to refute stuff with well crafted arguments and credible sources than it does to make things up that rile people up.
I’m just glad this type of people will remain on reddit, don’t try to convince them to come here lol. Let them stay in that shitty place, it’s perfect for shitty people
TIL: You can have an animated profile
TIL too
Like it or not in order for a site to grow you have to take in normies.
Endless growth for the sake of growth is not the goal.
That’s gotta be bots influencing those votes, right? Like damn
That’s the only outcome I’d accept.
I probably wouldn’t trust any vote counts on Reddit about this subject.
Yeah, besides, most of us who do agree with the mods are leaving reddit behind.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.First they removed the /.compact old mobile view, I did not speak out since I had already moved on to using RiF.
3 months later…
Once the heat dies down, they’ll be coming for RES and the old. desktop view.
Thing is I think it is those used to old Reddit are leaving. Those staying are those that joined after “new” Reddit and it is all they know. Old redditors are probably not profitable as they remember the wild west internet. New Reddit only know the corporate net and are easier to market to
Let the bootlickers stay behind. Let them delight in the milquetoast conservative snore-fest of mediocrity that waits them. Let them turn Reddit into Quora. Fuck 'em all.
Was Quora cool before?
If by cool you mean hogging all the Google results and hiding the info behind login walls, yeah they were always cool.
Oof seeing this just makes me miss Sync for Reddit… Ljdawson, if you read this, Sync for Lemmy pls
Don’t feel to bad, %99 of reddit is bots pushing an agenda especially when u/spez bank feels a little light
I’m finding Jerboa is close enough to scratch that Sync itch, although there’s room for improvement of course, it’s still early so things will likely get better with time
You might be interested in this: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14e7ikp/_/
Damn I want paying attention and you got me with that link! I haven’t been on reddit for a week!
Well then they will dwell in that corporate cesspool. I very much enjoy alternative and even it sparked my interest of free software as a whole because guys I have enough of those huge corps meddling and plotting and sticking their ugly heads everywhere and just ruining what should be the common good really
I was shocked at the reaction of r/lotrmemes. They seem to have really gone the extra mile to mock and stop the protests.
I don’t really trust anyone so deep into a fandom that their primary content consumption and creation is a fan specific meme sub. Their primary thing is engaging with that specific content, and anything that gets in the way is going to be attacked.
Just a sign of where Reddit has gone over the several years and who the main audience is.
The audience is nothing without the show. If all the decent content creators leave then they’ll just be left with bullshit fake AITA posts.
