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[–] matt 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.

When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.

If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.

[–] justhach 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"This thing does not affect me directly, so clearly its everyone else who is overreacting."

[–] johnthebeboptist 19 points 2 years ago

Except it literally does affect them, they're literally the ones throwing tantrums and whining about how mods and others ruined the subs, without a hint of irony.

[–] MiddleWeigh 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lol I'm sorry but these people are idiots. Who shills for rich corporations and lives a happy life?

[–] kratoz29 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IDK man, I want to understand them but I can't.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Just looked at some of those accounts and they're less than 2 years old. My guess is, they never used anything other than the official app so to them, nothing will change. Honestly, let reddit keep those users. I'd rather have a conversation with someone who doesn't have the attention span of a TikTok user.

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[–] MiddleWeigh 9 points 2 years ago

Omg me too. I know they are just human, and are susceptible to the same crap logic I am, but I can't put myself there. My only thought, is that they just don't know. The more you know, the harder you have to work, to maintain some kind of engagement in your life to feed the monster you created in your head. These people are fine floating, and tbh, I envy them AND pity them simultaneously.

[–] dragontamer 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~rich~~ corporations

Reddit never has made a profit. So... they're not rich.

I'm not sure that shilling for a poor corporation makes things much better though.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

These type of people can stay on Reddit for all I care. Just like how all the racist conspiracy boomers stayed on Facebook and similar things happen with Twitter right now as well.

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[–] LillianVS 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, gone full time Lemmy now. I do not miss Reddit! Let them have the Reddit they want. The corpo Reddit under spez, the kind of guy who doesn't care about the user, just the bags of money he sleeps on at night.

[–] kratoz29 16 points 2 years ago

It is so cringe to defend CEOs.

[–] nomadjoanne 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sad reality is most normal people are like this...

[–] MercuryUprising 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The number one greatest argument against democracy

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm just glad this type of people will remain on reddit, don't try to convince them to come here lol. Let them stay in that shitty place, it's perfect for shitty people

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I probably wouldn't trust any vote counts on Reddit about this subject.

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[–] someacnt_ 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First they removed the /.compact old mobile view, I did not speak out since I had already moved on to using RiF.

3 months later...

Once the heat dies down, they'll be coming for RES and the old. desktop view.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let the bootlickers stay behind. Let them delight in the milquetoast conservative snore-fest of mediocrity that waits them. Let them turn Reddit into Quora. Fuck 'em all.

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[–] 0uterzenith 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oof seeing this just makes me miss Sync for Reddit... Ljdawson, if you read this, Sync for Lemmy pls

[–] stupidcasey 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don’t feel to bad, %99 of reddit is bots pushing an agenda especially when u/spez bank feels a little light

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was shocked at the reaction of r/lotrmemes. They seem to have really gone the extra mile to mock and stop the protests.

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[–] Juliie 17 points 2 years ago

Well then they will dwell in that corporate cesspool. I very much enjoy alternative and even it sparked my interest of free software as a whole because guys I have enough of those huge corps meddling and plotting and sticking their ugly heads everywhere and just ruining what should be the common good really

[–] Spellbind8558 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a sign of where Reddit has gone over the several years and who the main audience is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The audience is nothing without the show. If all the decent content creators leave then they'll just be left with bullshit fake AITA posts.

[–] Doggylife 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As someone who has 0 modding experience on Reddit. I'm assuming the third party apps (Apollo, Rif etc.) Are the apps that mods use daily to moderate. But I don't think many people understand that and it's never said when people make this argument.

I think it's the same with accessibility but I'm not too sure. Cause Reddit said they're allowing non commercial apps which provide accessability free rein on the API (bar nsfw posts). But I think a lot of blind people use conventional third party apps which work with their phones text to speech. But I've never seen this argument made.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its understandable that (some) people have this view, they just want to enjoy the content they are used to.
But what I think they are missing is that there are a lot of people that put in a lot of effort in making free content to everyone else, and when a large group of the contributors are upset then this user's "free content" gets worse.
As a user you just have to accept that everyone will not have the same view as you and move on to another place where you can look at funny pictures or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I mean the funny thing to me is that this guy is just an idiot. This is r/piracy we're talking about, they're pirates. A decentralized and low-key forum like this is exactly where they should want to be, not on one of the world's five biggest websites just posting freely on main.

[–] justlookingfordragon 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bot downvotes. I used to get them all the time whenever I called out T-shirt scammers in my main sub. Those comments had up to ~50 downvotes SECONDS after posting them, absolutely no chance that real people were involved in the process.

They do that to discourage users from talking back. It works on most redditors that actually care for Karma or don't realize that they just triggered a bot response and think the backslash is real.

PS/EDIT: ...also, the scammers usually had a couple of spare alt accounts interacting with their main post, trying to create the illusion that a bunch of people are defending the OP when in reality there is only a single guy behind the scam. I wouldn't be surprised if something simlar happened here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I meant to ask, why do I get the feeling there is some concentrated effort to try to downplay those people trying to protest?
I see some of the threads on the subs doing the 'alternative protests', and some comments were downvoted massively just for joining in or showing support.

[–] linearchaos 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're are a large number of people that give a crap about anyone else. They use the reddit app and site and dgaf if API gets boned because it "doesn't affect them". Well, this affects them, and they're pissed because they see it as other reditors that caused it.

[–] Thade780 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's odd, most subs I frequented had votes to go dark, so majority supported the decision, wonder if it's now the folks that remain are the minority that voted against the blackouts

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[–] TheDemonBuer 13 points 2 years ago

Brands and corporations provide consumers with something they want and in return the consumers give the brand total loyalty and devotion. It doesn't matter if the brand engages in anticompetitive practices, it doesn't matter if the brand engages in predatory practices, it doesn't matter if the brand is actively harming the consumer, so long as the consumer is being provided with something they desire. It's gotten so bad that many brands have a cult like following.

[–] zikk_transport2 12 points 2 years ago

Not surprised. It's like going to Facebook and spreading information about how vaccines save lives. You will be downvoted to hell lol.

Any decent person has already left Reddit or still there observing the shitshow. Those who tries to comment (and defend Reddit) are literally the remaining idiots. They probably also have Facebook and spend another 50% time there arguing about "Biden bad Trump good".

[–] FiendishFork 10 points 2 years ago

I’m baffled as to how anyone would believe any of the public assurances Reddit has made at this point. No one has the ability to hold them accountable to any of their promises so they’ll just quietly never implement them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Nope, this doesn't surprise me anymore.

A good percentage of people don't stop at merely licking the boot, but actually deepthroat the entire leg.

[–] DigitalTraveler42 10 points 2 years ago

I'm sure a solid portion of those "Heil Spez" posts over in r/shitpost aren't posting ironically.

There seems to be a portion of people who just take contrarian positions on any topic, and those same people seem to be the ones that irony and satire are wasted on, you can probably guess as to what other types of groups those people belong to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@kratoz29

Some people are annoyed that mods took their dopamine away while protesting reddit.

is withdrawal syndrome.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The admins and many of the users take volunteer labor for granted on the site.

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