It’s not worth staying on at this point anyway. The people that remain are largely assholes. You can basically see the reason that protests don’t work as a macrocosm, because most users now are just bitching that “wahh the blackout only hurts users”. No different to people complaining about climate activists who block highways, or trans right activists who get blamed for “being too loud and annoying”. Protests don’t work when solidarity simply doesn’t exist because most people are just selfish, short sighted idiots, and that’s basically the userbase that remains over on Reddit at this point. I can’t think of a good reason to stay and interact with those kinds of people.
There are also lots of apologetic mod posts that are like “we reopened because we don’t want to lose all our hard work and be replaced by someone worse, that is not what’s best for our community so we’re reopening”, the ignorance and arrogance of such statements is mind blowing lmao, but trust Reddit mods to not see the wood for the trees.
“Protests don’t work” is a weird take on this. No political action is an unmitigated success, movements take time to build momentum. I dunno, try to cool it with the misanthropy. This has gotten a ton of media coverage, built the legitimacy of the fediverse, and forced Reddit to act to break a strike. Not to mention that every step of enshittification makes arguments against corporate controlled social media more compelling in the long term.
It’s not worth staying on at this point anyway. The people that remain are largely assholes. You can basically see the reason that protests don’t work as a macrocosm, because most users now are just bitching that “wahh the blackout only hurts users”. No different to people complaining about climate activists who block highways, or trans right activists who get blamed for “being too loud and annoying”. Protests don’t work when solidarity simply doesn’t exist because most people are just selfish, short sighted idiots, and that’s basically the userbase that remains over on Reddit at this point. I can’t think of a good reason to stay and interact with those kinds of people.
There are also lots of apologetic mod posts that are like “we reopened because we don’t want to lose all our hard work and be replaced by someone worse, that is not what’s best for our community so we’re reopening”, the ignorance and arrogance of such statements is mind blowing lmao, but trust Reddit mods to not see the wood for the trees.
“Protests don’t work” is a weird take on this. No political action is an unmitigated success, movements take time to build momentum. I dunno, try to cool it with the misanthropy. This has gotten a ton of media coverage, built the legitimacy of the fediverse, and forced Reddit to act to break a strike. Not to mention that every step of enshittification makes arguments against corporate controlled social media more compelling in the long term.
Theyre giving in because they dont want to lose their sweet mod power