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It looks like a lot of people think the blackout is pointless and support Reddit's choice (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by disney to c/[email protected]
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https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/reddit_were_sorry/ (Full post)

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4gy94/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 (One comment)

"This is the most neckbeard thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Reddit is a business trying to make money, no shit they are going to get rid of third party apps eventually. Welcome to the real world. You are not being oppressed. This protest has zero effect on anything other than just inconveniencing users. If losing third party apps ruins your reddit experience (oh no) just find another app or website."

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/comment/jo4fs7t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 (Another comment that got gold)

"This is absolutely stupid virtue signaling. It’s just a few power hungry mods pretending to add some meaning to their life so the other 99% can’t use the platform.

None of us regular people give a crap about the changes. Get over it."

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[–] WaffleFriends 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When the blackouts started, I decided to leave reddit permanently for Lemmy, a decision that I don't regret. I checked back in briefly today and it seems like reddit is currently tearing itself apart. There's definitely a lot more people vocally disagreeing with the blackout now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There’s definitely a lot more ~~people~~ bots vocally disagreeing with the blackout now.

FTFY.

Of course, there are indeed plenty of real people, along with bots, disagreeing. Their daily Reddit routine has been disrupted, and they don't like it. Of course, these folks aren't generally affected (so far) by API changes, so they just want things to go back to what they were. They don't understand what is coming, given the mod issues, etc.

[–] WaffleFriends 3 points 1 year ago

I think the vast majority of people just want to browse without any disruptions, tbh. A lot of people are calling them bots but I think many of them are probably real people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how things change once Apollo, RIF, Sync, and others go offline in two weeks.

[–] Ashhwaghandaa 4 points 1 year ago

That’s good to hear! I haven’t looked. Hopefully word gets out about Lemmy and more people join us over here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I checked back in briefly today and it seems like reddit is currently tearing itself apart.

How so?

[–] WaffleFriends 4 points 1 year ago

I just saw a lot of threads with people arguing over -2 day blackout didn't do shit -I don't care, why should you -Where's all the content, I want the content back -A blackout was really inconvenient