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.
Convenience and habit breed complacency. They do not undestand yet, that corporations are slowly eroding their freedom of exploring and sharing information. Through limitations you control accessibility, that then later you can monetize. So in the end they will have to pay, to get what they had once for free.
It is a form of brainwashing, when you think everything needs to be monetized. It is a form of brainwashing, when you end valuing only what you are forced to pay for. It is a form of brainwashing, when you defend those that are taking away your access to something you had for free.
Why aren’t those same people that defend the right of corporations to make a profit, defending the rights of the mods of getting paid for their labor? So is it okay for the individuals to volunteer their free labor and share ther content for the good of the community, but the corporations must make money out of it? Pick one model: sharing or monetization. You can’t have both, you hypocrites!