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.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Either laws get passed or ISPs crack down or server hosters begin to deny server space to smaller server

    This is the part where the scenario breaks down, IMO. Some of the biggest and most litigious companies on Earth aren’t able to stop torrent sites from being hosted, how would “laws get passed” to prevent independent Fediverse servers? Why isn’t Reddit doing that right now, given that it’s basically the “single large server” you’re describing here?

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Those were passed in 2018. They don’t seem to have had much effect on Reddit in the past five years, and don’t seem to be particularly broad in their applicability to online fora in general.

        • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          Oh man. I’m not sure how to say this, but you’re very uninformed. They’ve had a massive effect on the internet in general. I’m going to guess you don’t really watch, read, or listen to porn? Or participate in online dating communities? Or know what happened to tumblr, or that time OnlyFans tried to get rid of porn, or the pornhub purge of amateur content? Or about the way backpage shut down, and craigslist killed their personals sections?

          But yes, a lot of it has been “behind the scenes” because sex-positive spaces are very easy to drum up witch hunts against. As designed, of course.

          But it doesn’t have to be limited to “sexual deviants”. Anything that’s culturally out of favor can become the excuse to remove content. Take the laws in several Southern states banning critical race theory in schools, for example. Because it’s “hurting the children”.