I poked my head in this morning after staying away a couple of days. I’ve been on the fence about whether this event spells the end of my time on Reddit or not. I think it does. The comments like OP shows in his meme, combined with the behavior of Spez since the blackouts - that’s just not something I want to be a part of. I don’t want to contribute in the smallest way to the continued dominance of Reddit in that category of social media platform.
I’ll mull it over another few days, but pretty sure my main account is getting deleted this week. I have a secondary account that I might just stop using, but (due to what I use it for) am not quite sure I want to delete yet.
Probably means I need a new kbin account too, since I din’t really consider whether “runningfrommreddit” was a name I’d want to potentially use for years when I set it up. 😁
They are delusional. It’s no wonder the internet became so consolidated when them goons lack critical thinking. People just settle with whatever shit they have now instead of demanding a better product. Sad times.
And so many assholes blaming mods for the situation, not the dickhead in charge that could easily stop everything by reverting the changes.
How else do you apply pressure to the dickhead? a 2 day protest doesn’t do anything impactful. What if the American/French Revolution only lasted 2 days?
I think the 2 day protest was so a lot more subreddits would be willing to participate, and was ultimately used to spread awareness throughout the userbase (and get some traction in the news cycle). I don’t think anyone leading the charge was expecting spez or reddit as a whole to cave and revert everything within those 2 days, but you’d be surprised how easily users can ignore that stuff unless it’s shoved right in their face
Ultimately despite reddit still being a shithole, I think it was pretty effective. Not sure it could be called “rexxit”, but the fediverse is far more populated (and a bit more mainstream) now, as people start realizing there is a way for the community to hold some power and not constantly be at the mercy of bad management or greed
I agreed with the mods in /r/gis that there should be an indefinite blackout and got downvoted. Some person even called me “fucking stupid.” That place is such a toxic dumpster fire. I’m happy for kbin/lemmy.
any suggestions for a geospatial community here?
I too reside in a geospatial location; let’s talk!
