• carbonprop@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 year ago

    The Reddit blackout got me to delete my 12 1/2 year old account. Then I jumped into Lemmy to give it a try and I really like the potential. Spez has made a bad error in judgement basically to fill his wallet. The platform was built by a community and should be owned by that same community.

    • ashatmapants@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      Did the same for my 2 accounts, 8 and 12 years old. Really hope spez will regret his decision but I’m not very hopeful.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      I really appreciate how reasonable (IMO) the demands are in the stickied comment in that thread.

      Honestly it would be a good business move to accept those terms exactly as presented in that stickied comment. Nothing unreasonable is being suggested there.

      • bradv@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        Those comments though, wow. There are a whole lot of people who don’t understand anything about this and blame the mods and app developers. And we’re all over here on Lemmy instead of correcting them.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s the problem with leaving out of protest. The predominant voices on Reddit will be the ones who don’t leave. It will become the popular opinion that Reddit is in the right. We can’t control that. We just have to know that we are doing what’s right for us and move on to better things

    • celerate@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s amazing what subreddits exist that I had no idea about. I don’t know if humanity will ever recover from this loss.

      • SuitedUpDev@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ejecting the current mods, is kinda like going nuclear. It will damage the trust Redditors have in a subreddit. However, should Reddit do that, then I would imagine they will do that on a larger subreddit and a consequence of that, that news will spread like wildfire. That in turn will, most likely, cause moderator walkouts.

        I know current Reddit management is acting like they are stupid. That doesn’t mean that they are THAT stupid.

        But that’s just my 2cts.

        Edit: grammar be hard yo.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just checked and a bunch of the defaults are front-paging the same modpost about reddit killing third party apps. So it’s still ongoing in some capacity.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Feels like everything will be over soon and it’s going on like before.

    This is why scheduling it ahead of time to last for 48 hours was a monumentally stupid idea.
    If workers form a union and they go on a strike, and they told the boss they’re striking for 2 days, The boss can just wait it out and get back to whatever they were doing before after the strike.
    This is essentially a content creators strike from Reddit, telling the admins that everything will be back to normal in 2 days gives them the opportunity to wait it out without having to cave to any of the demands.
    I really enjoyed this community so far and watching it grow immensely over the past 24 hours or so, and it kind of feels depressing that most of the people are just going to leave and go back to Reddit tomorrow.

    • markipol@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think another major miscalculation is there was no alternatives agreed on by consensus. For example, if they had said to everyone “go to Lemmy”, “go to discord” etc. Now there’s no alternative to a lot of subreddits, people will just wait it out and go back to the subreddits when they go back, or if they’re indefinitely suspended they’ll just make new subreddits.

      • hodgepodgehomonculus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        I second this, and it has been bugging me since people started talking about the blackout. I think the big issue is that the people organizing the 48hr blackout are the mods. These are the people that have invested the most into reddit, and they dont want to give up that investment into their subreddits. They don’t want to leave reddit, and giving people an agreed upon alternative would be permanently fracturing their little fiefdom. They want to make a statement, and then for things to go back to the way they were, hoping that their tiny act of defiance makes a difference. The migration has to be led by users, but the issue of fractured lemmy communities is going to be hard to navigate unless lemmy introduces a way for communities to link together.

    • pinwurm@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They’ll be back here again in 2-ish weeks when Apollo and RIF are done.

      And when mlem and other apps start rolling out for Lemmy, we’ll start seeing shifts. Apps that have proper accessibility, a clean UI, lack advertising and don’t eat data. And they give you the same Reddit experience without Reddit’s predatory business strategy.

      When the blackouts stop, a lot of users will be able to search for Reddit alternatives and will find Lemmy… through Reddit.

      I mod a sub with 65K users or so, I plan to go dark indefinitely. Also considering Read-Only with a sticky redirecting here. I know I’m not the only mod.

      The Digg > Reddit migration wasn’t overnight. It was fast, though.

    • Aardonyx@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe I am being pessimistic, but asking volunteer reddit mods to drop tools for more than 48h during such an interesting time for the platform is feeling about as realistic as asking your alcoholic uncle to stay sober at a wedding reception with an open bar. Can they really stay away?

  • fcuks@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I feel reddit corp still dgaf and when the majority of subreddits are back then the blackouts will be but a memory…

    For me personally - I gaf, so I deleted my 12YO reddit account, wiped my comments and now going to be a lemmy & mastodon main.

    I think that the fediverse will continue to grow nicely, especially as existing reddit apps start to point to lemmy as a backend. Also places like tildes.net will grow nicely too with things like the fact the reddit is fun app dev has stated he’s building an app for it.

    They’ll no doubt survive, but Reddit really fucked their monopoly with how this was handled.

      • samus12345@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I went there and noticed I already had an account - apparently I tried it in 2018 and completely forgot about it. Based on the date, it was a reaction to spez’s “valuable discussion” comment.

      • fcuks@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have 5 invites, I want to save one for my bro but if you, or any other peeps want one - PM me :)

        • KennyOmega@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          I couldn’t figure how to PM using my app (Jerboa), but I’m very interested in getting an invite if somebody has an extra.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m considering the blackout to be like massive natural disasters: most leave, some stay behind, some people come back periodically but it’s never the same.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think the biggest impact is if we all delete our accounts, comments and content. Leaving half of Reddit threads filled with [removed] comments and dead Links.

      • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, I have multiple accounts, some of which are over a decade old. I am getting ready to delete all my old accounts in the next day or so, but I will keep one of my newer accounts as a backup incase they back down.

      • modifier@lemmy.ca
        0·
        1 year ago

        After my first full day of Lemmy and Mastodon, I’m just about ready to delete my reddit account.

          • modifier@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yes but that’s essentially a chicken and egg thing.

            I want more content too, but for more content we need more users, but we need content to draw in users.

            So, I can only control myself, but my plan is to:

            • Post more than I did on reddit. Post, not comment. Not even OC, just linking articles, ask topics, etc

            • vote more liberally than I would have on reddit. Not indiscriminately, but less stingy. Certainly if I’m responding to you I should be up voting you, in the original spirit of the up vote button

    • lemmy_steve@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s so nice of Stevie boy to refer to his userbase as “noise”. Proof of how little he values the people who use his corner of the internet. Hopefully this wording of his will show how little he thinks of everyone.

      • fcuks@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Good point, I do wonder what % of userbase are in support of these protest and what % don’t care? Seems like ~100k has joined these fediverse alternatives out of reddit’s 50,000,000 daily active users 0.2% if my tired maths hasn’t failed me.

        Not that I want the same userbase as reddit, far from it…

        My 50pence is that what reddit has fucked up is their monopoly on where these communities reside.

        • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          What really matters is the mods and users that submit quality content. A million lurkers don’t really contribute.