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?
Every population follows a standard, normal distribution curve. At the tips of this curve are the trailblazers (who left and came to lemmy) and the opposite side who feel as passionate about staying as we did about leaving.
Now that we’ve moved the 3 rd standard deviation off of Reddit, the curve has shifted and the opposite deviation is amplified.
This is to be expected when you have a population-level shift in any observed population. :)
Time will tell, but maybe this will create the great growth of Reddit alts whatever they may be.
People who mention the Broken Stair usually get accused of Rocking the Boat by people who don’t want to do anything about the Broken Stair. This is always the way.
It doesn’t mean the Broken Stair doesn’t need to be replaced.
I’ve noticed some of this in non-reddit forums, where we’ve discussed the situation at some length. I agree; it’s quite disconcerting.
Some people have even made it clear that they’re incensed at Christian Selig, like the situation is somehow his fault, and they consider him to be a gold digger who is just profiting off of the platform that Reddit generously provided, and they even go so far as to suggest that Selig needs to “pay his dues!!!11!!1” Even a well-reasoned argument (including a full explanation of the actual math) was ineffective at convincing them that maybe they don’t quite grok the situation… one person actually stated bluntly that he doesn’t even care; he basically just wants his subreddits back.
The mindset behind these kinds of comments just utterly baffles me. (shrug)
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.
Why would /r/conservative support killing third-party apps though? I don’t really see the connection.
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.
If people generally to the left support something they automatically oppose it, and a lot of the big leftist and liberal sites were the first ones on this blackout train.
Like this isn’t being mean, they’ll admit they do that. They’re proud of it.
Yeah, that sub seems pretty dumb tbh so it doesn’t surprise me.
Probably because they are less conservative and more … Contrarian?
Yeah, I guess they just want to “pwn the libs” by being made to use the awful first party app and have all the adverts etc.
I think the decentralised nature of lemmy, kbin etc. is much more in line with the libertarian ideals that some of the right have though.
What you’re realising here is right wing libertarianism isn’t real, it’s an excuse to allow people to do horrible things to eachother. They’re still very happy to ban things they don’t like.
I mean it’s also /r/conservative not /r/libertarian or whatever. So I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to hold those libertarian values in any case.
Yeah, but take a look in any thread and they’re 24/7 jerking off about how they’re freedom lovers or whatever.
Yeah, it’s not really a coherent worldview. I don’t entirely agree with libertarianism but at least it’s much more coherent. They aren’t like all for freedom, but then against gay rights or whatever.
100% guarantee … probably … to some extent
Hedging your bet there I see. :-)
Always never commit fully to something,
My one regret, Is that I have…Bonitis
I’ve moved on. Lemmy is where it’s at. I only post on reddit to promote lemmy now :-) It’s my new game. Polite and respectful suggestion of an alternative. But, it’s better to just be here, get to know people, figure out how it works and enjoy the learning experience
Same! I am posting a polite comment when appropriate about the fediverse and Lemmy explaining how it works and responding to respecful comments/questions. There are some vicious people in the replies but I just report and don’t engage.
Lemmy is great! Let’s gooooooo!
you gotta remember that the constant consumption of media is similar in many respects to addiction - people need their media back, preferably in an easy to swallow pill. the vast majority of the reddit userbase is unwilling to search for other methods/platforms to satiate that desire.
I guess i didn’t think it would be this bad. Like in one of my favorite subs, some of the user base is turning on the moderators, who have been excellent and have developed the community from nothing. It’s just unbelievable to see some of them turn that quickly.
There were reports reddit was using bots to influence the conversation
I would not put it past them. They tried banning accounts promoting alternatives.
