This place is a cult and I’m definitely proud to be part of it.
Whats that thing that happens where people begin to defend/ protect their kidnappers or abuser?
stockholm syndrome
Fun fact: the incident that “Stockholm Syndrome” is named after turns out to not actually be a case of Stockholm Syndrome. The hostages were only sympathetic towards the hostage takers because of the incredibly poor handling by authorities. One of the hostages was working on establishing a rapport with the hostage taker, but she was constantly undermined by aggressive tactics by the police, including reckless usage of guns that could have killed the hostages.
You’re right about stockholm syndrome. Similar to another phenomenon called the Bystander Effect, which while somewhat accurate, is often promoted with an entirely false story. It’s told that 20 some people heard the screams of a woman being raped and stabbed, but no one acted out of the assumption that someone else would or already was. In reality, the number was far fewer than 20, and of those neighbors multiple contacted police, or otherwise acted.
In extreme situations it can be exceedingly efficient to have someone giving direct orders, but this has more to do with clear communication and less with something akin to the bystander effect.
Government.
like a multimillion dollar corporation needs you poor mf’s to simp for it. Bruh. Let them burn. Spez is ridiculously self absorbed, to the point of creating his own self-fellating subreddit populated with bots praising him.
Ya know, this whole situation has me thinking about stuff - very dangerous. But it seems like this API move kills a few birds with one stone for the corporate Reddit:
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They lose all or most of the people that were there since the early days, so you will have less resistance to corporate shitting on users in the future.
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These people leaving probably removes a large chunk of trolls that fuck with the casual Reddit user - ya know, the gal that didn’t even know there was another mobile app besides the official one.
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Those casual users probably don’t know much about ad-block.
I guess all that is to say: They’re probably not burning, they’re probably excited the way things are going. They can better package and sell the ever more homogenized, terrible, boring, disney-ad reddit.
My mom finally got on Reddit, it’s going to be the next Facebook
As soon as the parents join, it’s time to start looking for a new site
Exactly. It’s a calculated move for sure, but they’ve built up enough of a mainstream base of newer people because they don’t know any different from the bullshitery that they’ve been fed
I doesn’t matter to me if Reddit survives. I was looking to move away, but there wasn’t a good alternative. With this move by reddit, the types I would get along with are leaving in mass.
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Everyone sees the other group as a cult, no matter contest.
Othering is a very dangerous tool.
Why do people describe Reddit as a community anyways? It’s a corporation, Lemmy is a community.
I was never a Blizzard player, but saw how spineless the players were when they tried staging a boycott. I swore I would never be that type and here I am.
Reddit is a corporation that generates its revenue from thousands of communities that use its platform. I miss PHPBB forums.
Because they
MANDATORY CORPORATE REGISTRATION DAY CELEBRATIONSloveable cake days!
redditors don’t simp for a corporation challenge (impossible)
That’s called Stockholm syndrome
