I’m very new to Lemmy, I’m trying to see how it all works and what happens here. But honestly I feel like it might be a little too decentralized? Like, I know it’s the point but I feel like this doesn’t make for the best experience. Communities can be on any particular instance, and you can have repeats of communities for the same things. This feels overcomplicated, but I understand why it’s that way.
Also, how many people are actually doing a full switch from Reddit? I personally don’t intend on leaving Reddit, I’m just leaving temporarily, but not for any specific amount of time. I think that’s what most people will do, or I guess I hope so, because Lemmy still has a long way to go before it gets good enough to make a competition, especially considering the drawbacks I said before, and I don’t want us to lose all those communities that went black indefinetly, even if I supported the decision.
The point of the blackout was to protest, expecting an end to it all, although many are already wishing for an end for Reddit altogether from what I can see.
Idk, I still hope Reddit doesn’t die tbh, I hope they listen to reason and backtrack a bit, or we find a way to bypass the restrictions somehow, I think I saw a revanced patch to many Sync work iirc, so maybe there’s hope still.
Respectfully, I think it’s somewhat naive to think that we the users can make Reddit listen to us. They are a company operating in a capitalist system and as the CEO said, they are going to prioritize profits until they are profitable, and once they are profitable, they are going to keep prioritizing profits. I’d be pretty surprised if users were able to make enough of a dent in profits in 17 days that they forced Reddit’s hand.
Reddit should do whatever they want to do.
Naive is thinking that Reddit will implode after 48 hours or that they will actually change something after 48 hours.
You are already saying it, they are gonna implement ways to monetize their users and platform and keep doing it in the name of infinite growth/profits.
That is the thing, why should I be a part of it or give Reddit my time and attention to achieve that?
They crossed the boundary that I had set for myself and me enforcing it is to leave the platform.
I joined the blackout for 48 hours and my idea was to see after what is gonna happen, but i’ll just login after the blackout and edit my comments and delete my account after.
I am not even coping, but I haven’t had the urge to open Reddit at all.
RIF was Reddit for me and for all I car they can put their API where the sun doesn’t shine.