By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...

What do you guys think?

  • dan@lemm.ee
    26·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think users are powerless. All these shenanigans are hurting Reddit, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying so hard to shut it down.

    I think it might feel like that because Reddit made a sadly rare good decision in deciding to stay quiet and out of the press, as it casts doubt on how effective dissent is.

    But it’s clear from the continued pressure on mods and the fairly drastic action to arrest the nsfw trend that the fallout is way worse than they anticipated and they’re just doing damage control.

    It’s working, keep at it.

  • Generator@lemmy.pt
    24·
    1 year ago

    There was any research made for this video?
    Cleary there wasn’t.

    • There are more apps for Reddit than Apollo
    • The protest didn’t stop after 48h, is still going
    • Admins forces subreddits to re-open
    • Subreddits mods where replaced
    • Subsreddits change tactics to protest
    • There’s a bunch of more apps for Android than there are for iOS
    • Didn’t mention what subreddit was u/spez moderator in 2008
  • jsveiga@vlemmy.net
    17·
    1 year ago

    Slashdot was becoming too toxic, I moved to reddit.

    Reddit wants me to use their obnoxious app, I moved to Lemmy.

    Reddit is a business. If they can survive doing what they see fit, good for them.

    I moved on. Life goes on.

  • Kroxx@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Consumers are never powerless, if a company does something shitty you don’t like with their product stop using the product. Companies are always tied to profitability, they will always try to maximize profits and milk it’s users as far as they can without losing them. If consumers fought back with their dollars by not consuming, then companies would stop. If 60% of reddit stayed blackout untill the change was cancelled, spez would have to give in. That’s why there is so much effort to fragment everyone, it’s the only to stop the majority from realizing the power they hold.

    • Kettlepants@lemm.ee
      263·
      1 year ago

      Why did you feel the need to call someone that though? Not sure there is any need.

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
          261·
          1 year ago

          “I did something pointlessly mean and insensitive, but that’s not important! I experienced repercussions that I feel were undeserved! I demand justice (but only for me, not for anyone else)!”

          I get what you’re trying to say, but you’re choosing a rather tactless way to say it. Point is, that community is run by moderators who are exercising their right to ban you based on your choice of speech. You could send the moderators of the community a DM, apologize, and try to sort it out, but instead you’re coming here to complain, which is… definitely not going to solve the problem.

          Alternately, start your own AskLemmy community elsewhere. If enough people disagree with those moderator decisions, they can come and participate in yours, instead. That, really, is the benefit of Lemmy over Reddit.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
          25·
          1 year ago

          It’s directly in the rules of the sidebar, and you violated them. Lemmy isn’t an unmoderated space. It’s a space where you can engage where you pick the moderation style you’re interested in. What you experienced wasn’t censorship, it was the repercussions of your own actions

        • Jamie@jamie.moe
          91·
          1 year ago

          I mean, being vulgar and flaming people is just sorta proving the point of why you got banned, if anything. I wouldn’t really say you’re making a good case for yourself here.

        • Kettlepants@lemm.ee
          71·
          1 year ago

          I get you’re coming at this from a free speech angle, but yeah, I don’t think flaming is helpful. With more users, and more experienced mods, I think this issue will reduce and you’ll be able to offend more people with less pushback 😂

            • racemaniac@startrek.website
              11·
              1 year ago

              So you’re calling someone a retard, but the point isn’t specifically to offend people?

              …

              Maybe it’s time for you to learn that it’s not your intentions that count, but your actions. And your action in this case is definitely offending someone because they don’t agree with you.

              The proper response would be to just say why, in your opinion, both sides are the same isn’t the case, and why you think it’s a bad take on the situation.

              • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.ml
                4·
                1 year ago

                I’m the offending commenter, the “victim” of @Antik’s antics. I certainly took no personal offense to a stranger calling me a silly name on the internet, but I do agree that such actions should not be normalized, simply because ad hominem attacks add nothing to a conversation and only serve to derail what could otherwise be a healthy discussion.

                So, @Antik, I don’t agree that you should’ve been banned, but you clearly showed an unwillingness to have an honest, open discussion, and that is most likely why you were hit with the banhammer.

            • animist@lemmy.one
              3·
              1 year ago

              Your edit only proves even more that you have worms for brains

              Also this instance doesn’t have downvotes. it’s just nobody is upvoting you at all

        • ritswd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I think in that mod’s head, it was the point.

          I mean no disrespect, but your comments come across as you having some anger management issues. I can see how someone could worry that it might be to the point of being ready to take everything down with you.

          I would say that the use of needlessly aggressive language is a part of it. I don’t particularly associate it with free speech (assuming that you do) since it doesn’t relate to an opinion you’re expressing with it; but it would occur to me as a mod that this anger could be a threat to keeping the community healthy for longer. The pointlessly aggressive comments is something that I personally don’t miss from Reddit.

          Anyway, Lemmy is decentralized, so you’re free to start your own instance/community who may be joined by other like-minded users who may not read into it what I’m reading into it. I don’t know you, and I could be wrong.

        • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          You got band for being an asshole on an instance that doesn’t allow assholes. I’m not really seeing the parallel.

              • Klicnik@sh.itjust.works
                36·
                1 year ago

                You have made an assumption on the poster, and then called him out over your assumption. If you think trumpers need to be called out, why not wait for him to say something about Trump? If you have a legitimate criticism of what he has said in this discussion, why not bring that up?

                I assume you are a racist, and that makes me angry. How could you? /s

    • animist@lemmy.one
      141·
      1 year ago

      I mean calling someone an r-slur and then being what sounds like a free-speech absolutist would get you banned from any instance I would run without hesitation.

      Luckily for you, you can start your own instance and call people whatever names you want. Sounds powerful to me.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
      11·
      1 year ago

      The real difference is that there are no “admins” who control the whole thing.

      Mods will be the same mostly I expect.