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About Louis Rossmann

Louis Rossmann is a repair shop owner and a vocal supporter of the Right To Repair movement. He runs a YouTube channel with a variety of content - from board repair videos, to news and updates in the technology space.

His insightful and reasonable opinions on technology and product ownership tend to attract a lot of attention.

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New video: "What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest..." (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by fperson to c/louisrossmann

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Yup, I agree with him. However, I'm still happy that all the Reddit stuff happened. That may naturally sound weird, but at least now there are enough people on Lemmy to be a viable replacement for me personally

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[–] emptyother 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I cant watch the video yet, but..

Failed? Well, as low as my expectations was, I'd call this a success so far. They've stressed the reddit leadership enough for them to take authoritarian actions making them look bad. Enough that reddit is running a pr campaign to paint us as "a few landed gentry who want stuff for free". Driven more than 30K people to alternative services. And the API isn't even down yet.

[–] fperson 5 points 2 years ago

While I do agree with you that spez fucking up like this was, in a way, an excellent thing for the internet, by "failed," he was referring to the mods who went back to Reddit. And it appears that there were lots of them. It's more about giving up so quickly and protesting in a weird way rather than some people starting to migrate to open platforms.

This is still a success for me! I've been a local Armenian Mastodon user for a long time. Then Elon took over Twitter, and many folks I was interested in following migrated to Mastodon, finally making me open up an international/English account there. And now this allowed me to replace Reddit with a federated FOSS, which is super-cool! I'm grateful for that, actually!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just finished watching the video - I think the main reason he's calling it a failure is because the site is effectively "business as usual" again as far as a regular user is concerned, with little positive outcome for the people affected by the changes. He also expresses concern about this setting a bad precedent.

Personally, I think the protest has been OK so far, a lot of nice folk have moved into the Fediverse (and other alternatives), with the toxic users mainly staying on Reddit. There's more 3rd party Lemmy apps in the works, and it's very active here with the ex-redditors.

All-in-all, a pretty positive outcome for some users like ourselves, but sadly not for everyone affected