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.
++ apart from news around really niche communities, it’s possible that much like the 24hr news cycle, platforms like reddit and tiktok are not likely the healthiest news sources; there could be an opportunity to aggregate news in some rss reader, though—that way you can at least add a couple more sources on top of the news you get from reddit
Yeah I had a few non-mainstream subs with decent enough news and good discourse in the comments. Now I’ve gotta build that back up with a dedicated news aggregator app
What an exciting time though. It feels like the entire internet is ready to just reset back to 2003 when all the good shit was just some person running a server on an old tower they had sitting around. We have some real opportunities to claim just a sliver of individuality it feels like