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.
Personally, I don’t have any problem with people still using Reddit. I loved some of the communities I was a part of over there, and I hope to go back to them.
But I do have a problem with the subset of Redditors who are complaining about blackouts for one of these reasons:
People who are saddened by the loss of their community, or by the loss of valuable content that is currently available (especially when it turns up on Google), I have much more sympathy for.
This is where I’m at… I’d rather use lemmy as a platform any day, but losing all the existing information on subreddits that are going dark really sucks, especially for niche stuff.