Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification

ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• grubberfly@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  why?

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because they thought if they just folded to the site admins that everything would be okay in the end. “Oh, we built a community! We don’t want to lose it, so we’re opening back up so daddy Spez doesn’t take away our power!”

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most facepalm reaction tbh. If only they had some spine they would have switched immediately to lemmy, but most were just doing it to go along and never had any intentions of doing anything significant.

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      • Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Even as someone that's still active here, this would never happen. Neither lemmy or Kbin were ready to replace reddit in either features, stability or support, not then and not even today. It's unfortunate but reddit is not going to go down when there is no actual competition available.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wasn’t a mod, but I did participate in the blackout as a user and I did not immediately switch to Lemmy when it was over. It took about two weeks to get over the whole ‘FOMO if I leave Reddit’ and ‘I’ve spent over a decade here’ sunk cost issues.

        So I don’t blame anyone for not immediately switching to Lemmy, but if you haven’t jumped ship from Reddit by now, especially if you’re doing thankless mod work for people who don’t appreciate you, I have little respect for you at this point.

        And let me take this opportunity as someone who mods several lemmy.world communities to say that I do not feel that the .world admin are unappreciative at all. In fact, exactly the opposite. And they’re working for free just like I am, so it is a whole different scenario anyway.

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      • nytrixus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We don’t need them. If they’ve spent years, shitting on the communities they’ve hogged all this time, what does one thing they’ll do when they come here?

        The worst that they can do is run their own instance, but it’ll be away from the rest of us.

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    • Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As much as I dislike iBleeedBullshit and AssholeTheTurtle, I can respect the fact that they pissed off Spez enough to nuke their accounts from orbit.

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      • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mad props to anyone that managed to be a thorn in the site admins’ sides, even briefly.

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    • nytrixus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s exactly the gesture I gathered when all of the subreddits opened back up. “Please! Please! Don’t take away what little control we have over everyone because we live insufferable lives because we barely control a single thing in it! We’ll comply!”

      Yeah, great little movement you did there, guys…

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