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Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected.

There was a disturbing tone in some of the messages though. It was a form of cynicism essentially backing Reddit to do whatever it wanted to the devs, and that it was wrong to protest the rule changes as we should be okay with whatever Reddit wanted. It was almost like learned helplessness. I genuinely found it to be disturbing. Is anyone else noticing this in their communities/subs?

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[โ€“] FantasticFox 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess they just want to "pwn the libs" by being made to use the awful first party app and have all the adverts etc.

I think the decentralised nature of lemmy, kbin etc. is much more in line with the libertarian ideals that some of the right have though.

[โ€“] minimar 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you're realising here is right wing libertarianism isn't real, it's an excuse to allow people to do horrible things to eachother. They're still very happy to ban things they don't like.

[โ€“] FantasticFox 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it's also /r/conservative not /r/libertarian or whatever. So I wouldn't necessarily expect them to hold those libertarian values in any case.

[โ€“] minimar 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but take a look in any thread and they're 24/7 jerking off about how they're freedom lovers or whatever.

[โ€“] FantasticFox 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's not really a coherent worldview. I don't entirely agree with libertarianism but at least it's much more coherent. They aren't like all for freedom, but then against gay rights or whatever.