I think another major miscalculation is there was no alternatives agreed on by consensus. For example, if they had said to everyone “go to Lemmy”, “go to discord” etc. Now there’s no alternative to a lot of subreddits, people will just wait it out and go back to the subreddits when they go back, or if they’re indefinitely suspended they’ll just make new subreddits.
I second this, and it has been bugging me since people started talking about the blackout. I think the big issue is that the people organizing the 48hr blackout are the mods. These are the people that have invested the most into reddit, and they dont want to give up that investment into their subreddits. They don’t want to leave reddit, and giving people an agreed upon alternative would be permanently fracturing their little fiefdom. They want to make a statement, and then for things to go back to the way they were, hoping that their tiny act of defiance makes a difference. The migration has to be led by users, but the issue of fractured lemmy communities is going to be hard to navigate unless lemmy introduces a way for communities to link together.
Well, it’s a protest, not a notice of intent to vacate. You don’t go on strike at your job because you plan to quit, you go on strike because you want conditions to change so you don’t have to quit. Users are finding alternatives, but that wasn’t the point of the blackout; the point of the blackout is to tell Reddit to quit its bullshit, because it depends on the users and mods, and a mass protest like this right before IPO is a pretty bad look for the company. That said, I do agree that leaving it at a 2-day action is not enough, and hope that more subs will go private/restricted indefinitely unless changes are made, with possible migrations elsewhere.
I think another major miscalculation is there was no alternatives agreed on by consensus. For example, if they had said to everyone “go to Lemmy”, “go to discord” etc. Now there’s no alternative to a lot of subreddits, people will just wait it out and go back to the subreddits when they go back, or if they’re indefinitely suspended they’ll just make new subreddits.
I second this, and it has been bugging me since people started talking about the blackout. I think the big issue is that the people organizing the 48hr blackout are the mods. These are the people that have invested the most into reddit, and they dont want to give up that investment into their subreddits. They don’t want to leave reddit, and giving people an agreed upon alternative would be permanently fracturing their little fiefdom. They want to make a statement, and then for things to go back to the way they were, hoping that their tiny act of defiance makes a difference. The migration has to be led by users, but the issue of fractured lemmy communities is going to be hard to navigate unless lemmy introduces a way for communities to link together.
Well, it’s a protest, not a notice of intent to vacate. You don’t go on strike at your job because you plan to quit, you go on strike because you want conditions to change so you don’t have to quit. Users are finding alternatives, but that wasn’t the point of the blackout; the point of the blackout is to tell Reddit to quit its bullshit, because it depends on the users and mods, and a mass protest like this right before IPO is a pretty bad look for the company. That said, I do agree that leaving it at a 2-day action is not enough, and hope that more subs will go private/restricted indefinitely unless changes are made, with possible migrations elsewhere.