Schon bemerkenswert, wie User gegen eine Plattform kämpfen, bei der sie freiwillig sind. Als gäbe es keine Alternativen.
Meine Prophezeiung ist, die User werden auf lange Sicht die Kröten schlucken.
@GambaJo egal ob man da bleibt oder geht in beiden Fällen kann das nur als kollektive Aktion gelingen. Individualistisch verliert man die Community und wegen der sind die Leute halt da.
@GambaJo
...hat der Mensch nicht zu allen Zeiten den Ast gesägt, auf dem er sitzt.....fährt er gerade heute doch Achterbahn,auf dem das letzte Teilstück im Looping noch gar nicht fertiggestellt ist.......Mensch halt......
Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, Reddit admins comin 'for ERRYBODY.
I thought they were coming for r/zfs at first but nope, they were coming for r/25admins, which has only 250 subscribers and had no activity at all for a YEAR prior to the protest.
We are going 9 days strong on the #redditblackout glad there are people still doing this. IT should send a message to the world that the little people have a voice. of course u/spez isn't listening thats why people are dumping reddit in droves! Reddit will die in a fire and i'm here for it! delted my 6 year old account on the 13th and i'm not going back. Period!
Nuked all Reddit domains in DNS the night of the two-day blackout and haven't been back since. Opened RiF impulsively a few times in the first couple days but closed it when nothing loaded.
There was a lot of content there I enjoyed, but I'm finding Lemmy can scratch most of those itches just fine as more people move over and I find the needed communities. Replaced my app shortcut for RiF with Jerboa and now muscle memory takes me to this fine place!
If the third party app developers for Sync, Apollo, and/or RiF (amongst others) get involved in Lemmy/KBin/etc clients, I'm very curious to see how and how quickly the Fediverse grows.
@paul If you create a bunch of users in your own instance via an automated script but never login to them, would that cause this spike and still leave it at one active user? If so, why would anyone do that? What's the point? I'm curious.
The first thing that came to my mind was a troll farm/bot farm.
They also could be setting up some kind of bridge to Reddit or some other site.
We saw this with Mastodon, but not at this volume, when servers were recreating popular Twitter users accounts by mirroring them to their Mastodon servers.
"On the whole, #Reddit has benefited from a system that largely spares its leaders from having to make impossible decisions over what kinds of speech belong on the platform. But it also makes the company unusually vulnerable when, in an effort to wrest back some power from the user base, they revolt." #RedditMigration
An update on Redditanic's sinking and Steve Huffman’s megalomania:
Large subs are being nuked of their mods. r/mildlyinteresting had their whole mod team suspended and removed. r/TIHI and r/interestingasfuck show up as unmoderated (and therefore open to scabs to apply to become mods).
At least two of these have had polls and overwhelming user support for the protests.
In The Good Place lingo: Steve Huffman is a giant forking bench who takes cork up the ash for pennies.
It seems like #reddit is really trying to shut down the #redditblackout now. They are now actively removing ENTIRE mod teams where there communities posted #nsfw content on subreddits where the moderators allowed it.
Reddit is clearly of the opinion that moderators are no longer the masters of their subreddits and can be removed without any real wrongdoing.
Steve Huffman: "Apollo threatened us, said they'll 'make it easy' if Reddit gave them $10 million. This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."
Luckily, Apollo developer Christian Selig had proof that Huffman lied.
While the media coverage (and many written subreddit positions) focus on the API changes, it's the justified anger at Huffman's dishonesty that fuels many of the redditor protests.