It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
  • Swordgeek@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    There’s still one protest possible.

    LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!

    Same with twitter.

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure there will be ways around it. Mods can automod-delete every comment, change the rules of the sub to only allow posts of nonsense, or nit moderate at all.

    The main problem is that protests don’t succeed at reddit because people like moderating for free for some reason. Strangely Reddit has more leverage over mods than mods have over reddit.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      People still use AOL internet. I expect Reddit and twitter to die sometime in the 2050s.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Digg still exists. Death of websites is rarely a complete shutter, but usually more of a steady decline into obscurity

  • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Reddit is one of the most infiltrated and astroturfed site. I have absolutely no confidence that the leadership are interested in addressing that. When there were suspicions it was anti-US actors, they had to take action because the government would get involved. But we all know that such pressure doesn’t exist for other astroturfing actors, state and private.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      It’s so much better. Personally I don’t hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I’m super OK with that.

      • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
        02·
        1 year ago

        I’d argue Lemmy is turning into its own echo chamber. I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit. I erroneously thought people would learn from past mistakes, but sadly this is not what happened.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not all of us are tankies fwiw, I just wanted to be on the largest and most well-supported instance with generally the least amount of downtime.

        • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          They are heavily biased towards China and Russia, two countries with fascist governments. That kinda speaks for itself, even if they claim to be communists or socialists.

  • Angrywaffle2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    04·
    1 year ago

    I’m not surprised. I’m on this site because I’m sick of being banned on reddit for thinking wrong.

      • Angrywaffle2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        04·
        1 year ago

        I had that happen too. Conversations with people would just dissapear. I’m done there. I can’t say anything even slightly edgy without getting banned. I got banned from a sub for saying mods will kill reddit. I got a permanent hate speech ban for a fantastic joke.

        “I can’t show you the evidence of Haitians eating pets. They already ate all the evidence.”

        I like the reddit form of consuming information but that place you either get in line or get silenced. The equivalent of r/politics is far left on here too so that might be a bad sign for this site though lol.