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.
I’m the sole mod of a subreddit with 12,000 members and I’ve still got it private. I feel completely shit on by the Reddit admins and CEO. I’ve volunteered a ton of time to deal with spam and scammers and assholes, and clearly it’s thankless.
Currently my thoughts are tending to leaving Reddit entirely.
no shit. no one asked you to do this. you knew from the beginning it was volunteer. You deserve nothing.
No one asked me to do it, but did I deserve to be insulted by the CEO for doing it?
In the end, I turned off all the anti-spam stuff and abandoned the subreddit. Because fuck it, I don’t need to provide them free labour.