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.
They will probably be defederated when they start getting VC money. They may try to hide it but if the money is supposed to help them dominate it will be difficult to do.
Let’s say they have the money. How are they going to use it to dominate?
Just having better hardware? That would only be attractive if the rest of lemmy cannot handle the traffic. In that case lemmy would be doomed anyways. Paying people to post stuff and drive activity? People will talk and the whole business case is you don’t pay for content, users provide it for free. Same arguments apply for hired moderators. Forking the software? Major changes and features without any willingness to contribute back to the project will get them defederated, especially when VC backing becomes know.