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.
This is the curve of history. Movements arise, they grow, and once they hit a mass large enough to capitalize off of they’re co-opted. This has always been the way. It will continue for a long time. We keep our chins up and our eyes forward. Yes, it’s frustrating. But we keep on keeping on. We do the right thing because it’s the right thing - not because it’s easy.
Have heart, lemming
That’s precisely why we have to take action.
We are, we moved to lemmy. In the short term the majority absolutely will stay at reddit and nothing will change. There’s no use in despairing over that or getting angry. We will plod on, stone-faced and indifferent to those who don’t care. They don’t affect us. We will grow as we grow, and getting emotional will not change any of that
I agree, I am not the OP. I am not angry, I only sad they affect us.
Objectively this affect not only us, but everyone that will ever need to search for information online.
The arc of history doesn’t bend on its own. It must be bent. Don’t be complacent and just wait for things to get better on their own.
This.
Its OK to fight for something better/right. Anger is just another tool in your toolbox.
Consumer advocacy is good. Don’t ever let anybody convince you otherwise, especially those trying to shape the narrative.