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I think the funniest thing in all of this is how so incredibly easy it took for Reddit to swing into the support of these profit-driven and greedy decisions simply because it slightly inconvenienced them for a couple days. Like the second they're faced with something that could disrupt their daily content feed they just completely bend over backwards
I don't expect everyone to be perfect, I'm certainly not, but at least have the guts to admit there's a problem. The fact that all these users perform Olympic gold-level mental gymnastics to somehow justify the blackout is not only something that won't help at all, but the people doing it are wasting time and are idiotic is...well actually that's pretty on point for the site
Maybe all of those who supported the blackouts were true to their word and left and only those against remain?
Very possible. But even the people left I am sure will go back to virtue signaling about how awful greedy companies are and how we need to take a stand against them while ironically still posting from and thereby supporting one
As dumb as it sounds it reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where the guy slowly uncovers everyone is being lied to by the government, and ultimately gets hired by that same government as a skeptic radio persona that everyone loves to listen to while they fall back in line
And if Reddit does make positive changes those same passive users who believe anything corporations tell them (the type who call everyone else idiots because they don't understand business) will laud the charges and say how great Reddit is for making them.
This happens so often in tech. "Company X should never change' becomes 'i love company X because they've improved!'
People can be weirdly aggressive in how they align with their favorite corporate 3rd parties.
I imagine this is the case, it just means reddit will become even more of an echo chamber.
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I honestly think something like that happened. It wouldn't even need to be all. Of just half left the other half wouldn't have the numbers to keep from being down voted out of the conversation.
I think some of it is that and probably some brigading with bots.
I'm one of them.
they do it for free too