Thinking everything is gray is also an uneducated response to this kind of thinking. Too many people refuse to stand up for a point because they think that 'all sides are bad' or 'well the good side isn't perfect'.

This is easy to do for one subreddit. And it's a large one. Would easily need 10+ mods to keep it running. But if a few of these large subreddits revolt, I don't think reddit can simply replace them all.

Not only that but I think replacing the entire mod team would cause a revolt anyways. Tensions are extremely high

To be clear, I like it better here, but I do not want an exodus of any type. I want slow migration to help the platform grow more organically and for people to see a polished experience.

People won't come back if they show up once, interact with this not-pretty-but-functional site and don't like it. So I'd rather wait for the influx of users to be at a later time tbh.

Iirc one of the mods said that the blackout was designed to prevent that. If it's 2 days, they likely won't bother taking them over. But an indefinite lock down they probably will. Even then though, that disruption in content will likely be too large to handle for most users

I think it's good to note that while some of this is a failure to develop critical thinking, failure to entertain hypotheticals is OFTEN a trait for people with differing cognition. So don't assume they're poorly educated just from this, take it as a sign that the person thinks differently.

I've met and am friends with people who struggle with hypotheticals and education isn't the problem, just how their brain works.

I think a good portion will do both frankly. Half will go elsewhere or reduce usage. Half will stay like nothing happened.

I'm not about to defend their opinions but to me, I don't see how they matter. It sucks that I wouldn't find the devs to be ethical in that case, but I care far more about this federated platform. As long as they keep it to their own instance and keep developing an open platform for others, I don't know that it's relevant.

Which is why reddit has been a target for gorilla marketing campaigns for a while now. I only trust review sites that I follow now

Okay let's not kid ourselves. I know reddit is quiet right now but the entire website is angry at them. Their inbox is likely full of death threats. People are searching for their employee information.

I get that it's fun to hate on spez and all but people have hunted employees down for less before. So yeah, while this is a justified protest and I dislike spez, we should all want to keep reddit employees safe right now. Most of them aren't the problem.

I feel that. This platform doesn't feel like it will necessarily be one to make it big. Or be mainstream. Or get all of reddit to move over.

I think what the platform does feel like is something I'll remember fondly. When I think of my time on reddit, I mostly just think of arguments, power hungry mods, and spam. This feels like a community and I wouldn't be happy to lose it to growth.

Note to everyone: this isn't a recent thing. This has to do specifically with a whole propaganda campaign they ran about Biden not letting 'hard working people' do their job by limiting heat exposure at 80 degrees and above.

Which is true, he's pushing for heat regulations because, and this is true, there were no federal regulations prior to this. Biden did something great so of course Abbott had to go and be an idiot

Should be noted, Twitter is actively crashing and burning and may file for bankruptcy this year.

Hiya, older GenZ here. The pop culture references mostly go over my head but the show is packed full of witty humor that is still enjoyable. I don't think anyone should be worried for futurama being adopted by younger people, especially in STEM fields.

And I hate to say it but it made the perfect opener for the thing that Zuckerberg is talking about. I mean the Zucc himself is literally talking about federated communities right after the other giant social media companies started running theirs terribly.

At the very least, people will hear about the tech elsewhere now and maybe that will drive traffic to actual federated communities.

I'm kind of tired of people farming human interactions and profiting off of making our communities miserable. I'd donate a lot to lemmy if I had money just to not have to be the product anymore.

Reddit won't come out on top. They'll survive, but it's going to hurt them. They seem to have pissed off most communities on the site. It's the largest protest they've ever had.

I think that stating it as 48 hours was smart. Because if subreddits start saying it's indefinite, then they have time to start replacing mods and shutting the protest down. Whereas here, 48 hours will pass. They lose a lot of money in just 2 days. And if nothing changes, you'll likely see decreased quality and/or continued protest.

I think it left room at the table for reddit to cooperate. It's a common bargaining thing.

Why bring bar when tiddy do trick?

I don't know if it will ever fall or fail, but I think the days of reddit being a place for the future of the internet to happen is over. People just plain don't trust the site anymore.

Like why build fun tools for it? Why help moderate a community? Why do anything on reddit if the post quality is insanely low, bots are everywhere, and trolls have taken over.

Companies do this a lot. They sacrifice good will and community for money because it can't easily be put down on a profit graph. So reddit seems fine to burn most of their genuine community to make a profit. And that's fine, they'll go elsewhere.

My hope is that somewhere like lemmy can stop the need to keep changing platforms.

You'd likely need a really good filter to filter those out, so I hope yours works. And even then, those chemicals are in everyone and everything so they're very hard to avoid.

Platforms have to turn to make money. But that can be done ethically. There were many universes where 3rd party apps didn't have to shut down. Or where they were given notice. And I guess this move just was really mask off for spez. Of course reddit needs to make money. But you can do that without shitting on the site you built.

It's the epitome of what capitalism does. It's like 'oh you like this place or hobby or content sharing or socializing? Well now it's worse and costs money!' Because capitalism has ruined everything else and it will sell you and your community of friends to the highest bidder.