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Making reddit go back to their own ways is not victory. We need to get redditors onto Lemmy. It is up to us to use Lemmy and spread its awareness to redditors.
I'll do my part to welcome anyone who joins here, but there are plenty of knuckleheads on reddit who will give you shit for having any kind of principles that take a long term view or make life anything other than blissfully convenient. I have no motivation to try to convince those people.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? What sort of views did you get shit for?
The Witcher subreddit mods put up a poll about whether or not they should extend their protest (Every post from the start of the protest had been about The Hexer an old poor adaptation of the witcher). I commented that I supported the continued protests, because charging exorbitant prices is unfair to moderators that do what they do for free, and unfair to the 3rd party app developers who gain no income from developing their apps. Someone came at me with this argument;
buddy i work 48 hours a fucking week i’m just trying to enjoy and discuss things about fandoms i enjoy while i’m taking a shit. i could care less about these protests, all it’s doing is fucking up my potty time
Like, from a self-centered point of view, how dense do you have to be to not understand that moderators not having access to their tools is going to "fuck up your potty time".
well I called him;
Self centered, selfish and uncaring.
I mean seriously, have some common decency to fight for the platform you browse daily. I just don't get some people, really. Well regardless, Lemmy has been a much better place, though I can't imagine that'll last forever.
Like, from a self-centered point of view, how dense do you have to be to not understand that moderators not having access to their tools is going to “fuck up your potty time”.
this is the summary of 60% of reddit now
pissy white boys mad that their entertainment driven by free labor was interrupted
mad that their entertainment driven by free labor was interrupted
Exactly, my point. These people have such a shallow view point that they can't stand to have their content interrupted for a few weeks to fight for better online rights. That's why your platform is currently a burning garbage fire. Enjoy your "potty time" now.
Honestly I imagine a lot of the people fighting against the protests were people paid for by reddit admins to try and sow discourse amongst users. Well, I wonder how that went for them considering the drop in content, and the rising migrations to Lemmy. It sucks because in losing Reddit - the information super highway that it has become - we as a species lose a lot of important information, and a lot of niche questions that wouldn't be answered otherwise. But that doesn't mean we can't ask them again here on Lemmy. 🙂
Losing the info highway sucks but I wouldn't say it's a loss as a species. The majority of users are in North America and then the broader anglosphere. So it's definitely a loss in that cultural space. But the majority of the world, like India China Korea, doesn't give a fuck about Reddit.
fair enough.
this is the summary of 60% of reddit now
Likely because that's who is left on the platfrom. 60% who actively don't care, and the other 40% who either haven't realised what's happening or have no idea what's going on.
Every post from the start of the protest had been about The Hexer an old poor adaptation of the witcher
The quality was shite, but at least it respected the source material.
Like, from a self-centered point of view, how dense do you have to be to not understand that moderators not having access to their tools is going to "fuck up your potty time".
A friend of mine said that his opinion is, that the end user is the one being shat on by those protests. Pal, the end user is being shat on, that's true, but that's why the protests started. According to him, the official app is not that add ridden and it's no big deal. That was June 30 afternoon. He won't be able to compare those apps now and I do hope, when whatever lovely communities he missed so much during the protests go down in quality under new moderation, I can say "I told you so".
The quality was shite, but at least it respected the source material.
Yeah fair enough, in some aspects, it's leagues better than the Netflix one haha
But regardless, the way the Admins were pushing the Moderators around by the end of it is something I just can't support. I hate bullies.
As someone who thinks like said user, they fucked up my potty time because I used RIF. I couldn't care less about protests and other shit, but I won't install Reddit official app because it's bad and I need an android app. I don't want to browse from Firefox. Therefore, here I am. Most people aren't too invested into reddit and creating too many barriers will drive the away. The reason I don't use reddit is the same reason I don't use Twitter, Facebook, and hardly ever open Instagram: their apps/sites are just too inconvenient to use due to little things such as forcing logins, ads, pushing internal browsers, pushing their own image/video hosting...
I like Tiktok, on the other hand, despite doing a lot of the same shit, and YouTube haven't annoyed me enough to leave yet.
Someone said to me (paraphrasing), “you aren’t going to leave. I’m going to keep an eye on your account to see. You’re all making a big deal out of nothing. The official app is fine and you’re just being crybabies. “Waaa my app!” You aren’t going anywhere and I’ll call you out if I see you comment or post.”
I haven’t commented or posted since Apollo shut down and I don’t intend to.
Ahh, the internet blooms with summer children in July.
Caring about how large internet companies or corporations in general treat their users, and putting my money where my mouth is when I disagree with them. To some people, this is a reason to rethink your life.
I wrote about migrating to Lemmy and got banned from some subreddit...
Not surprised, i messaged many moderators about a community in lemmy and many seem to care less. However I got a few moderators over from reddit onto lemmy.
Some mods may be concerned about losing their mod status if they go to Lemmy.
Not their precious janitorial powers!
They need to create the communities they mod on lemmy and there are plenty of instances to choose from.
Oh, it would be a victory. But only until they try it again. And again, and again...
Not to worry, we will be still flying half a social network
Making reddit go back only shows they have the motive, means, and now another opportunity to try again.
Kill it. Leave their corpse at the gates so others know not to alienate all the cattle.
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