Multiple subreddits are adopting alternative methods of protesting like publishing only one kind of post and private days.
  •  UnhealthyPersona   ( @UnhealthyPersona@beehaw.org ) 
    52•1 year ago

    This is actually hilarious and I love the creativity and malicious compliance here. It’s also a shame the admins response to this whole thing. They’re trying to claim that this whole thing is just a small group of moderates power tripping when in reality many of the subs held polls to go dark or continue protests. Before this all went down I saw a ton of people saying they should go dark indefinitely in many many subreddits.

    Huffman is full of lies and bullshit and that’s the real reason people have so much backlash at this point

    •  Framecode   ( @DeathWearsANecktie@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
      22•1 year ago

      Reddit comments seem full of Huffman bootlickers now who are claiming that there was no community support for protests and that the companies actions are fair and justified. I don’t know what the facts are but every single poll on every sub I seen on the topic was decisively in favour of action.

      I can’t understand why some people are so proudly apathetic, or reactionary when there’s some sort of dissent.

      •  Stewie   ( @StewieTheThird@beehaw.org ) 
        9•1 year ago

        Yeah I think its the same issue Twitter is having right now. All of the bootlickers are being elevated above the rest of the conversation. Could be 2 fold apathy in terms of lurkers not wanting to participate in the conversation leaving all the air for the mouth breathers, or bots. Or a combination of both.

      •  Ignacio   ( @Ignacio@kbin.social ) 
        8•1 year ago

        I can’t understand why some people are so proudly apathetic, or reactionary when there’s some sort of dissent.

        There will always be people who are afraid of changes and only like to live under the statu quo. It happens everywhere and it happened all the time.

      •  jjagaimo   ( @jjagaimo@lemmy.ca ) 
        6•1 year ago

        I’ve seen people coming out of the woodworks into subs they don’t even engage in just to spam comments about how no one supported the community joining the blackout. The sub voted. And granted there were only 3k votes to 1M subscribed, but given that the poll was available for a while and anyone who regularly engaged in the community would see it, I dont see how someone who is that much of an outsider should matter more.

  •  Shdwdrgn   ( @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ) 
    30•1 year ago

    I keep seeing the quote “the API wasn’t designed to support these clients” and it always makes me wonder… What exactly does he think an API is FOR? As far as I’ve ever seen, APIs are specifically for outside connectivity. If you’re working with internal code then you simply make your own hooks as needed. Even an app could use hooks not available to the public. And if the API is NOT designed for this type of usage, then why would anyone want to PAY to use it? He keeps saying he wants to make reddit profitable, and yet he’s telling the world that the API isn’t fit for usage? None of it makes any sense.