r/pics, gifs, among others are voting on whether to return to normal operation. As lots of people supporting the black out aren’t using Reddit at the moment the voting is currently going in favour of returning to normal
This has been consensus across most of Reddit. Most people don’t care, and won’t care. So, those of us that do just need to be here making the best of it and not worrying about Reddit. Once there is comparable amounts of content in the Fediverse, people will end up joining for the same reason they joined Reddit.
I initially signed up for Reddit after I kept getting sent links to Reddit. It was just a place that had information I was interested in.
Right now, telling people to join because it will eventually be good and it’s ethically good doesn’t work because there’s not much here and most people are fine using commercial software.
However once there is a wealth of information here, say someone publishes a very good guide for self-hosting and you have a friend that wants to self-host a Plex server, you link them to a lemmy or kbin guide. They will naturally be compelled to join and ask questions if they have them.
It takes time. Just let those of us that are ideologically driven create content good enough that everyone else ends up coming for their own reasons.
Yeah, most people probably scroll past any blackout related post as it isn’t interesting to them. I don’t honestly believe the protests will come to much of an end. Mods will probably end up being replaced by someone worse.
I would love to see some of these subreddits take a more offensive stance, allowing poor quality posting to show how much work they put into there modding and how bad content can ruin a sub.
Unfortunately, I don’t see the voters letting that happen in this poll.
Huh. I’ve come to the opposite conclusion. At least in most bigger subs, such as r/pics, I’ve seen the overwhelming majority voting for blackout or restricted posting. This particular poll at r/pics has by now finished and it was a landslide victory for sexy John Oliver.
Honestly I’m basing that opinion on two subs… cigars, where I wasn’t at all surprised because most cigar guys are conservative leaning and likely to see this as a bunch of bullshit, and ethfinance, which honestly you would think would have more consensus based on the whole decentralization thing. Surprised to see some subs very supporting, like /r/MMA is here in force.
The poll has closed:
Voting has now closed.
Our final tally is as follows:
Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes
Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes
The overwhelming majority voted for sexy John Oliver. That’s good.
I fear that nothing will change after all. There are too many users who sadly don’t give a shit. They just want their stuff to work right now and don’t think about the broader picture.
Reddit will be fine after this. We cannot stop it. We are probably not enough.
Probably not, but at least they’re trying something. r/pics is full of sexy John Oliver pics right now and I find that hilarious.
Plus all this fallout has definitely brought some people over to Lemmy, I have been a lurker on Reddit of ~7 years, always seemed too busy to comment on Reddit, anything worth saying had already been said. I feel like I have a voice here and will be staying. Hopefully overs feel the same.
Bonus pic of sexy John oliver I spent waaaay too long editing together not to share here too 🤣
We don’t know where the voting is going. The thread is in contest mode, so the sorting is meaningless no matter your sort method.
