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.
Honestly I kinda hope they just stay over there. There’s a place in the world for Reddit too. It’s grown so hostile the past few years, like I’ve actually had anxiety from it, and I’m a perfectly rational person.
The thing I like about this whole Lemmy/Fediverse thing, is there’s a bit of a learning curve. This sounds arrogant, but it’s probably going to keep a collection of people back, folks that are so occupied screaming from whatever political pole they are clinging too, or the vaccine hoax/belief/hysterical bullshit soapbox they are screaming from, that probably won’t take the time to get over said learning curve. So it might act as a buffer, which would be a really really good thing in these trying, trying times that we are all suffering though. Neighbour vs neighbour and whatnot.
In my experience, this depends on the subreddit. The very big/popular ones tend to be the most toxic, whereas the more niche/nerdy ones are friendlier.
In these past few days, it did surprise me how many people just expect their free content and free moderation and don’t even want to be slightly inconvenienced or show support.
Agree 100%
Catering to the lowest common denominator gets you… Exactly that.
Right? just voicing neutral opinion gets them “redditors” gang bang on people and I’ve also seen people saying that they agree just to get aggressive response by commenter they agreed with. Like why?
Too many go to argue on reddit and not enough go there to actually have civil discussion.