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It’s a good point, I hope alot of subreddits continue indefinitely like some have said they will. Although reddit is unlikely to change their decision, I’m happy with the result. If Lemmy stays even a fraction as active as it is now after the blackouts then Lemmy will be the better choice for me personally.
I didn’t use Lemmy before because of how small it felt, but after the blackout every community is bursting with life and I can see Lemmy completely replacing reddit for me.
Hopefully enough refugees feel the same :)
I’m right there with you, Lemmy feels like the next logical evolution of Reddit, but I can’t help feeling like Spez is just going to wait us out since we’ve handed them a timeline. If this was a union strike, which it’s feeling more and more like, we’d be waiting until the admins agree to sit down with the mods to discuss an agreement. And I recognize that not everyone understands the gravity of the changes but this is our best change to effect change since the moderators seem to all be on the same page.
I think after those 48hrs we will see and discuss further if no positive statement is there from reddit. Also does somebody know if the blackout ende tomorrow or on thursday? because it says 12-14 but everyone is talking about 48hrs.
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It was a limited scale action to show the impact possible. If reddit indeed won’t move it could become indefinitely. /r/ffxiv already wanted to move it to a week or indefinitely.
The problem is that reddit is going to call the bluff. The lay-user is going to get the shaft, at best mod tools will be beefed up to keep the jannies in the fold, the rest of the site is interchangeable. I doubt most subs will remain closed purely on principle, and if any of the big ones do, there’s probably several power mods perfectly willing to step in.
A site that receives its content for free and was solely created to link content from all over the web is upset that apps are linked to their API for free. Fuck Reddit. Can’t you see? The value isn’t in Reddit, the value is in the consumer. Forget about 48 hours. Reddit is lost for good. Move on.
This goes for every entitled social media company that has been undergoing enshittifcation. They get their content from us for free so for them to have the nerve to turn around and start creating all these rules and fees that worsen our experience is bullshit. We created their value and so when they forget that then we must do our part to take that value away.
