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.
Okay okay. Ya got me.
But to my defense with Lemmy being a lot “cleaner” in a sense, it actually has improved my productivity in the real world. My habit of scrolling has subsided.
You’re not kidding about the cleaner part.
Coming here has made me realize just how astroturfed reddit is on the larger subs. Just an army of bots upvoting each others trash.
Folks here are just trying to rebuild what they loved from reddit and it feels genuine. Honest to god it’s like a breath of fresh air
I am a migrating redditor, but I have to say I think we need to also respect that Lemmy isn’t reddit, and it doesn’t need to become it.
I’m already happier here than I was on reddit for the last several years, so I could care less what becomes of reddit or what the general consensus of their users is. It’s irrelevant to me now.
yup thats how i feel too
like reddit is a monster that will never be slain i think at this point, so whats the point of fighting it really
i just want this place to be as dope as it can be