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.
Yeah, figured that out back when everyone jumped to MSN Messenger instead of better alternatives.
The 80% wont jump on anything until they think its used by a majority. Thats what advertisements are doing. And social pages givng friend suggestions. And apps asking for permission to read your contact list.
Lemmy doesnt stand a chance against any company big enoug to advertise.
I disagree with this to be honest. I think that people are starting to see the cracks in what Big Tech is doing, and slowly, once enough people switch and Big Tech platforms become worse and worse there is gonna be a shift. I mean that’s basically the entire thing I’m trying to do with escapebigtech.info, literally showing the world what Big Tech does and pointing them to other FOSS alternatives. It’s probably not gonna happen tomorrow, or next year, or heck, even this decade, but at some point enough people will switch that it will be inevitable.
Optimist. Good, we need more optimists. Not people like me who think kids today grow to be as blind to corporations and tech as our parents was.
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