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.
Yes exactly. I deleted my account and believe everyone should have. But unfortunately you get people who are just too lazy to do that and just want the existing comvineince to continue.
They’re going to have a horrible experience, loaded with ads and probably worse content. But they don’t care.
As for me I’m glad I jumped to Lemmy, much like with Mastodon, because I’m not contributing to that no good Reddit anymore and not being their pawn. We can build new communities here and carry on with the same great content as before, just without the fools.
It’s not only like Mastodon, it uses the same protocol as Mastodon and to some limited extent you can communicate with Mastodon instances.
Yeah the vibes here are so much less hostile. There’s probably an upper limit on the number of users that should be on a site, because everyone always talks about “good old days of ____” and really the deciding factor of those sites was, it was small enough to be a real community.
I’m going to build my own theme park! With blackjack and hookers!