This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
I’m not really interested in what’s going on at reddit anymore. Frankly, I hope a lot of them stay. Reddit has been awful and crazy toxic for a very long time. I’m grateful that spez has fucked up so bad that it’s finally motivated enough people to create and seek out viable alternatives. I’ve been looking for a very long time and am so damn glad enough other people are also that the Fediverse is now viable and Tildes has enough users. This is a great fucking week in the history of the Internet.
My secret hope is that all the quality posters, even quality shitposters, migrate over and these low effort “not my problem so fuck you” type of users stay on Reddit. Those people are the ones who make the subereddits toxic because they have no solidarity towards others, you either agree with their point of view or you’re scum of the earth and there’s no inbetween for them.
I’ve been on reddit for 12y, the only way to navigate it was through 3pa and only on niche subs. All/main page were toxic pitholes for a very long time. Frankly, we should have seen this coming (and some users did!), it really was just a matter of time
It’s about damn time people built a Reddit alternative. Reddit has been dead to me since around 2017 when Ellen Pao got involved.
Reddit was way better back 10 years ago, much like how lemmy is now. Just praying the same shit doesn’t happen to Lemmy.
2015/2016 for me, right around the time US election stuff starting to ramp up
I’ve just been too lazy to find an alternative until now, but I feel so much better