• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    163·
    1 year ago

    This is the sort of action I love to see. Reddit thinks they own the moderators who are working for free. They want slaves. Fuck them.

    • Pumpkinbot@lemmy.world
      112·
      1 year ago

      From the very start, ever subreddit should have challenged Reddit and called their bluff. Go ahead, replace the mods for thousands of subreddits. If a few dozen are changed, that’s no problem. Whatever. But thousands? Good luck.

      The whole protest seemed so half-hearted from the start. You don’t go on strike with a set end-date in mind. You go on strike indefinitely until demands are met or a satisfactory compromise is made.

      • OwenEverbinde@reddthat.com
        88·
        1 year ago

        I will say that the short blackout was enough to get me onto the Fediverse. I didn’t even use the apps that would be affected by the API shutdown, so I never would have noticed the controversy without the blackout.

        But once the blackout was announced, I recognized how far reddit was willing to go in service of harvesting its users’ data. And after that point, I just didn’t feel good on the site anymore. (Granted, I first created an account on Mastodon because the people calling for blackouts never mentioned Lemmy. But still!)

        Between Facebook’s notification system repeatedly failing to direct me to comment replies, Twitter DDoSing itself, and reddit turning into the Eye of Sauron (which, again, I would not have even noticed happening were it not for the short protest), it seemed like the perfect time to exit the sinking ship of corporate social media.

        Meaning they did something. Maybe they didn’t avert the reddit apocalypse, but they still did something.

        • reev@sh.itjust.works
          15·
          1 year ago

          When the blackouts started no one had a clue which of the alternatives would stand out as a viable option.

          • GriffinClaw@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 year ago

            True, but it got people (eg me) started on actually looking for alternatives.

            Not being very tech savvy, the reddit summaries post backout helped alot too.

            • Kikkertje@aussie.zone
              5·
              1 year ago

              Same. Investigated why there was a blackout, found out Reddit was screwing over RIF in a big way and felt disgusted enough to look for Reddit alternatives. Here we are!

      • Uphillbothways@lemmy.world
        27·
        1 year ago

        There was never a chance for compromise. This was about money; a premature, over blown, knee jerk, pie-in-the-sky hope to cash in on free expert input based on decades of good will interactions performed for free by people who cared about their subject matter.

        I deleted every comment I’d ever made and left pretty much immediately. They can eat their own shit.

        • zarmanto@lemmy.world
          19·
          1 year ago

          Don’t forget to go back a week out and verify that your deleted comments didn’t mysteriously reappear. Seems like that’s been happening a lot lately, according to various reports. (I haven’t really had the heart to go delete all of my own comments. Yet.)

          • Cabrio@lemmy.world
            14·
            1 year ago

            Get your account banned, boom, comments gone. If you want to cause additional pain GDPR request on your banned account every 30 days. They still have to comply with requests as long as they hold your data. Make them work even though you don’t use the site.

        • tabular@lemmy.world
          9·
          1 year ago

          I heard one guy had manually deleted their comments only to find sometime later they were restored.

      • ItsWizardTime@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        I was saying this from day one, we aren’t teachers or nurses or someone who may feel they owe society some information about their strike.

        People literally could not promise to stay away from a website for a week. The strike should have been indefinite it was our chance to try and save it. Now it’s lost to me.

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          I never wanted to save Reddit in the first place. I was glad that spez finally screwed it up badly enough to prompt people to leave in large numbers, and I was glad that the protest was too half-hearted to restore the status quo. Fuck centralised, corporate-owned social media.

          • ItsWizardTime@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve gone full soapbox preacher on federation of late, but it almost feels like trying to explain the internet to someone without a computer in 1998. It’s amazing the amount of people who have said stuff like

            “Yeah but YouTube can’t just do whatever they want on the platform…”

            Hopefully Threads will be the wake up call for the masses.

      • Epicurus0319@lemmy.world
        103·
        1 year ago

        Because they can’t bear to touch grass for more than 2 days and can’t live without their power trip

        • momentary@lemmy.ml
          21·
          1 year ago

          That’s fair. I was also thinking how you can potentially whip up your own instance if you become unhappy oth your current one. Or if you don’t like the moderation of a community you can start using a similar community on a different instance. There is a lot more freedom of choice here!

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
            10·
            1 year ago

            If an instance owner could think of imaginative ways of funding or if Lemmy adds things like purchasable awards for funding (I know… I can hear everyone’s eyes roll collectively) then Instances could even pay moderators if they really wanted to.

            Lemmy can be whatever it wants to be.