This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.
When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.
If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.
“This thing does not affect me directly, so clearly its everyone else who is overreacting.”
Except it literally does affect them, they’re literally the ones throwing tantrums and whining about how mods and others ruined the subs, without a hint of irony.
Lol I’m sorry but these people are idiots. Who shills for rich corporations and lives a happy life?
IDK man, I want to understand them but I can’t.
Just looked at some of those accounts and they’re less than 2 years old. My guess is, they never used anything other than the official app so to them, nothing will change. Honestly, let reddit keep those users. I’d rather have a conversation with someone who doesn’t have the attention span of a TikTok user.
Lol, in this kinds of threads there is always the bitter milennial, that can bare that times change.
because surprise! those kind of users are here as well! (like me :0 )
Like just because someone is not an elder person will be in favour of corporate fuckery?
Look I am one, but think it is bitter millennials that joined Reddit ten years ago and want old Reddit and working apps. The new new generation are used to new Reddit and corporate millennials are elders now.
I think that it would vary by other demographics, too. I don’t personally know any other people around my age (Older Gen Z) who still use reddit, especially after all of this went down. I understand that my personal experience is only one out of billions, so I’m also not necessarily saying that you’re wrong about that either.
I don’t know, I guess I just wanted to reassure you that not all of the new new generation is following reddit blindly. Many of us are strongly protesting over the principal of how reddit treats their mods and users. Many posters don’t feel the need to include their ages, so I’m not sure we can get a fully accurate read on the age groups just yet.
Nothing is too big to fail.
Omg me too. I know they are just human, and are susceptible to the same crap logic I am, but I can’t put myself there. My only thought, is that they just don’t know. The more you know, the harder you have to work, to maintain some kind of engagement in your life to feed the monster you created in your head. These people are fine floating, and tbh, I envy them AND pity them simultaneously.
richcorporationsReddit never has made a profit. So… they’re not rich.
I’m not sure that shilling for a poor corporation makes things much better though.
Lol. They feel very strongly.
I’m just glad this type of people will remain on reddit, don’t try to convince them to come here lol. Let them stay in that shitty place, it’s perfect for shitty people
Like it or not in order for a site to grow you have to take in normies.
Endless growth for the sake of growth is not the goal.
TIL: You can have an animated profile
TIL too
These type of people can stay on Reddit for all I care. Just like how all the racist conspiracy boomers stayed on Facebook and similar things happen with Twitter right now as well.
And you thought those websites couldn’t get worse LMAO.
That’s gotta be bots influencing those votes, right? Like damn
That’s the only outcome I’d accept.
I was shocked at the reaction of r/lotrmemes. They seem to have really gone the extra mile to mock and stop the protests.
I don’t really trust anyone so deep into a fandom that their primary content consumption and creation is a fan specific meme sub. Their primary thing is engaging with that specific content, and anything that gets in the way is going to be attacked.
Let the bootlickers stay behind. Let them delight in the milquetoast conservative snore-fest of mediocrity that waits them. Let them turn Reddit into Quora. Fuck 'em all.
Was Quora cool before?
If by cool you mean hogging all the Google results and hiding the info behind login walls, yeah they were always cool.
The sad reality is most normal people are like this…
The number one greatest argument against democracy
Lol, gone full time Lemmy now. I do not miss Reddit! Let them have the Reddit they want. The corpo Reddit under spez, the kind of guy who doesn’t care about the user, just the bags of money he sleeps on at night.
It is so cringe to defend CEOs.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.First they removed the /.compact old mobile view, I did not speak out since I had already moved on to using RiF.
3 months later…
Once the heat dies down, they’ll be coming for RES and the old. desktop view.
Thing is I think it is those used to old Reddit are leaving. Those staying are those that joined after “new” Reddit and it is all they know. Old redditors are probably not profitable as they remember the wild west internet. New Reddit only know the corporate net and are easier to market to
Oof seeing this just makes me miss Sync for Reddit… Ljdawson, if you read this, Sync for Lemmy pls
Don’t feel to bad, %99 of reddit is bots pushing an agenda especially when u/spez bank feels a little light
You might be interested in this: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14e7ikp/_/
Damn I want paying attention and you got me with that link! I haven’t been on reddit for a week!
Its understandable that (some) people have this view, they just want to enjoy the content they are used to.
But what I think they are missing is that there are a lot of people that put in a lot of effort in making free content to everyone else, and when a large group of the contributors are upset then this user’s “free content” gets worse.
As a user you just have to accept that everyone will not have the same view as you and move on to another place where you can look at funny pictures or whatever.I mean the funny thing to me is that this guy is just an idiot. This is r/piracy we’re talking about, they’re pirates. A decentralized and low-key forum like this is exactly where they should want to be, not on one of the world’s five biggest websites just posting freely on main.
Brands and corporations provide consumers with something they want and in return the consumers give the brand total loyalty and devotion. It doesn’t matter if the brand engages in anticompetitive practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand engages in predatory practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand is actively harming the consumer, so long as the consumer is being provided with something they desire. It’s gotten so bad that many brands have a cult like following.
Just a sign of where Reddit has gone over the several years and who the main audience is.
The audience is nothing without the show. If all the decent content creators leave then they’ll just be left with bullshit fake AITA posts.
