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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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a lot of people back on Reddit could not give less of a shit about the issues and just want their content; they even see this as just mods powertripping again
it's kind of annoying to see that, tbh, even if I sort of get it
A look at their comment histories might be interesting, to see if they're the ones contributing content worth reading.
I suspect I can guess the answer.
Why would that be annoying? It means the strike is working, it does exactly what it is meant to do. If the consumers don't find content, they will ultimately move elsewhere
they could easily have their cake and eat it too by signing up to lemmy. There are a lot of instances out there and they could make their own if none fit.
but that's not immediate and requires some work and effort (to figure out how federation works, to figure out how Lemmy works, to learn how to create an instance and to make one, to start over with an entirely new community); many on Reddit want the easiest path to get their content
which again, understandable, but still annoying to see
Perhaps... but once a certain amount of people left DIGG for reddit back in the day, the whole thing quickly fell apart. I mean, yea, DIGG still exists and I assume there are people who still use it, but I've never met one since I left it about 15 years ago.
Its not like the API issue is the only reason, much less the main reason people want to leave reddit. A lot of people have been wanting to do it for a long time now, it is only that there haven't been any other options with a crowd big enough to hold a conversation beyond only a few people. There is a big chance that that is now changing.
Damn, the apathy is strong but I do get it. After all, Reddit was mostly a place for me to deflate and relax or just read things during downtime.
I haven't seen that. Everyone seems to be rather upset about Apollo, RIF, Relay, etc. The only person I've seen suggesting power tripping mods is u/spez.