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The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet (www.vice.com)
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[–] KillaBeez@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just looking at Redditor's reaction to this is telling me the battle is already lost. Most seem to be completely done and just want their cat videos back. It's clear that the normies who invaded the site and proceeded to make it worse are completely content with what is happening so long as their addiction is fed. As far as I'm concerned, they can have the site.

HOWEVER. Maybe its a sign that all of the people who were in favor of the protest actually did leave and the only ones who are left are those who don't give a shit about it or don't support it.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you can't exactly take the subset of redditors still using the site during the blackout as representative of how redditors feel about it - anybody with any concern about it is not crossing the picket line.

[–] relevants@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The number of comments per minute seems to have gone back to pre-blackout levels today. I think unfortunately there are just way fewer of us than I'd hoped.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The organisation was very poor. All the mods had to do was setup a sub here and link it. The ones who cared could've joined.

48hrs isn't enough.

[–] Frz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not all mods or are sold on Lemmy though, same with Redditors in general. Even on r/RedditAlternatives I see so many posts and comments saying Lemmy will never take off because it’s not user friendly enough, too complicated, etc. I find it pretty disheartening honestly. Of course a platform in its infancy will have bumps and hurdles to sort out. The fact that they’re dismissing Lemmy so quickly is just saddening.

But I feel we’ve already had a promising start. As QOL changes arrive and UI slowly improves I think we’ll see more and more people trickling in. Just gotta pray the spark doesn’t fizzle out before then.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There are. The few of us that appreciate it and give back to the community. I'm starting to look at it as a good thing.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, there are also apparently some alt-right goons who want Reddit to burn for shutting down their old favorite hate forums, and they're stirring up shit too.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They have twitter now.

Seems like any liberal/left forum or community is a target.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They support the changes because it will drive away mods, letting them post their shit unfettered. They can have it.

[–] breakerfall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The way you put it reminds me of Digg. When the "normies" came along with Digg v2, the OGs (the cloistered nerds ^see^ ^below^) left.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regarding the "real" issue being the use of the API by AI developers: It’s been evident for at least the last few years that this was going on, and I had seen it as a positive thing—that we were helping to create a training corpus that would be freely accessible to everyone, not just a handful of corporations with their own proprietary data.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's worth noting that any company that operates a search engine probably has a copy of the whole web anyway and does not need to do API calls to get it. They just scrape it for search indexing. This includes, e.g., Microsoft and Google.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Bye reddit.