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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m glad to be totally off of Reddit now but I have to say, props to the mods doing this kind of stuff. It’s pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're getting no end of grief from bad/paid actors though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of whinging and bootlicking from people taking Spez's side was insane before I left for good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t seem organic. Protest posts would get 95% upvotes, then suddenly 12 hours later get slammed with bootlickers and downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So long as it hurts Reddit, all the better.

This whole API issue is a lost cause, so the only thing that can be done now is to make Reddit lose big.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep the fight for Reddit is lost. All we can do is make an example of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish more of the larger subs were still protesting and didn't roll over so easily. But regardless the site has taken a massive hit to its reputation and one can only hope that recovery won't be possible moving forward and it screws them out of their chance to go public.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good that the protest keeps going. Lemmy AND Squabbles are not a fraction of what Reddit was for all my interests and hobbies. Let's hope more and more people keep learning about the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's so weird to see all the people still fighting on Reddit when I've already moved on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly expected after the API changes rolled out that the backlash on Reddit would stop but I'm glad to see the shenanigans continue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, as much as I hope lemmy succeeds, I simultaneously hope that the API changes get reversed. Good job to those fighting for this over there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am afraid the two might be mutually exclusive. Lemmy is like old Reddit and still on early adopters. We get more and more newcomers only because Reddit is going downhill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is a lot less active now. Gotta love it