Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected.

There was a disturbing tone in some of the messages though. It was a form of cynicism essentially backing Reddit to do whatever it wanted to the devs, and that it was wrong to protest the rule changes as we should be okay with whatever Reddit wanted. It was almost like learned helplessness. I genuinely found it to be disturbing. Is anyone else noticing this in their communities/subs?

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Keep 2 things in mind

/r/conservative assholes are running amuck across all of reddit at the moment.

And, Reddit has been known to astroturf comments in the past and I 100% guarantee that they are probably working on that to some extent right now.

[–] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Why would /r/conservative support killing third-party apps though? I don't really see the connection.

[–] NightSicarius@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think people are united in their views about Reddit. I've seen a bunch of conservatives complaining that Reddit is a "woke leftist hive-mind cesspool" and that it deserves to die. So I guess they support the blackouts because it'll lead to Reddit's death. Oh, and they also claim that Twitter is great now that all the "leftists" fled the platform because they were getting banned by Elon Musk.

The Internet is weird sometimes.

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