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!”
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.
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.
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.
As someone who moved a million-users community to lemmy successfully, if those mods had already started moving their communities to lemmy during the blackout, many many more users would have moved already. But they never planned for that, so it was just a weak bluff that reddit called.
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.
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!”
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!”
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.
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.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 months ago
At least when reddit fuck up again, the alternatives are already pretty mature, at least compared to last year.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
lemmy is to reddit right now is what reddit was to digg when reddit first started. Eventually reddit will go a step too far.
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.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
As someone who moved a million-users community to lemmy successfully, if those mods had already started moving their communities to lemmy during the blackout, many many more users would have moved already. But they never planned for that, so it was just a weak bluff that reddit called.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I tried to get other people off the site before I left, but the mods decided to be douchebags about user retention.
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.
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.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Mad props to anyone that managed to be a thorn in the site admins’ sides, even briefly.
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…