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.
It is an addiction … I’m a recovering alcoholic with 25 years of sobriety so I know what it means to be addicted.
The general rate of people recovering from an addiction comes in thirds
A third recover and hold on to their recovery
A third recover but relapse again and again all their lives
A third never recover and can’t grasp the change they need to make (and grasping isn’t implying a test of intelligence, some people are just wired this way or do so much damage to their psyche that they can no longer change, no matter how intelligent they are)
People leaving Reddit and going somewhere else will affect some but not many … most will stay … but it will be the ones who leave and start something new that will grow the new community that can succeed in the future.
Reddit was once new and it was an alternative to old systems … now Reddit has become like the sites they stood in contrast to years ago. We are the new Reddit … give it time and things will grow.