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Reddit's pathetic attempt to quash dissent
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Honestly at this point any mod left on reddit who thinks things can improve is fucking delusional. I don't even feel bad for them. Most mods opened their subs back up after 48 hours or when they were threatened with replacement from the admins. The entire "protest" was a fucking joke. I think we should just let anyone left on Reddit circle jerk each other and concentrate on building out Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.
So I don't think the protest was fruitless. Sure the 48 hours blackout or whatever it was (I don't remember) may have been dumb, but that's how I wound up here.
Angry, I started a community for carnivorous plants, a weird niche thing I loved reddit for. Posted a side bar talking about how it was a placeholder, forgot about it, and lo and behold, people started posting.
I don't think any of that would have happened without the blackout. The power mods might have had delusions that the protest would even things out and then things would return to normal, but I think the protests opened up peoples view to the fact it doesn't need to be the way it is, and it wasn't always that way.
I'm also a member of an old school kind of forum around a specific kind of car that always beat the pants of the comparable subreddit.
That's a really well written point of view. Thank you for that. Yea I think Lemmy and the fediverse have a lot of potential, however it's definitely still growing. So far I like it. It feels simple and quiet. There are no ads. The layout is pretty decent. Some of the mobile apps like Jerboa on Android is also surprisingly very good.
Thanks! and agree. I'd be happy with more content but but all my reddit subs were niche things. I went out of my way to get rid of the "dopamine drip" memems and what not. Funnily enough I've left those on here for now because it's not endless they way it was at reddit.
I used RIF on mobile and RES at my desk (plus a bunch of ad blockers). So I didn't have to deal with the noise but absolutely it is nice when the layout is about the end user and not pushing for attention.
There are multiple reasons why the "Mod on the internet" memes exist. We are seeing one.