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I still think the admin team will forcefully takeover and reopen the big subs, but I think that'll be like pouring gasoline on that dumpster fire.
I’m pretty sure that’s what’s going to happen too.
They’ll kick dissident mods out, install their own, and just reopen the subs like nothing happened. There’s precedent of that happening I believe (although for much more reasonable reasons, like mods going rogue for stupid or anti-free speech stuff).
And it’s going to be an absolute shitshow. I feel sad, but I also kind of love it. You reap what you sow, I guess.
If they force a reopen, we should all get ready to post Never Gonna Give You Up music videos all day long.
Or a certain four-letter word starting with F followed by a famous Reddit administrator’s handle…
But yeah. My Reddit account is pretty much worthless now, so might as well express my discontent, right?
I’d love to see “fuck spez” become to reddit what the HD-DVD encryption code was to digg
Yeah the only reason I still go to Reddit is to watch the chaos. Great entertainment
Someone on the fediverse (might be here?) asked "Do you want Lemmy to succeed or do you just want reddit to burn?"
I've landed on "both, for independant reasons." Its been high time reddit's corporate greed gets checked, and what a better way to go than an icarus flight?
I agree!
I want Reddit to fail because they overestimate their value and think that their software is why Reddit is popular (even though, let’s face it, the software was absolute garbage during the time where Reddit became popular, and is still is, albeit for different reasons).
I want the Fediverse (and not specifically Lemmy or Beehaw, although I’m in love with both at the moment) to succeed because I think that the idea behind it gives the communities that it hosts total control about what they want to do, regardless on the people that hosts them.
So it’s not really that different, as it all boils down to the same point: the importance of communities is paramount, and the tools that are given for that are important but also mere accessories. Well, it’s actually a bit more complicated than that, but I think that it gets the general idea.
So incredibly well stated, and I am also in the "both" camp.
Pretty much!
I can confidently say both, as I've started my own instance of lemmy and have allowed a small amount of users to join.
The last paragraph, I feel exactly the same. I miss reddit, but I don't think there's going back after this. It has to go.
But here’s the thing: are you going to miss Reddit or the communities that they allowed you to partake in?
Because there’s no reason to miss the former - and you’ll miss the latter either way because a lot of people are going to just stop using Reddit after the changes come into effect anyway, so the community will certainly change.
I think that this move made most of us lose something. Which is certainly sad, but we’ll lose it either way, so might as well get rid of the platform they hurt us, right?
It's definitely the communities. Although I definitely get lost doom scrolling lol.
Well, there's hope for doom scrolling on the fediverse yet my friend! I did it quite successfully last night between reading bits of the AMA dumpster fire!
Haha good good. I've definitely been able to spend some time on here so that's super positive.
With the APIocolypse refugees coming in daily, things are looking good for a half hour sat on the toilet, even though you finished right away, and nearly falling over when you get up because your legs are asleep....scrolling.
Lol. I may or may not know what you mean
Solidarity ✊️ the struggle is real!
Call me paranoid, but imo, Reddit might just install ML based mods. I’ve seen quite some progress from these tools recently and they might pull it off.
What that will do to the emergent culture of each sub will be a big unknown.
They can't force free moderations with their staff. This may be the end of Reddit.
I'd kinda love to see that, it'd be huge. Could even get some of the larger sub mods to maybe open kbin or lemmy instances instead? I'd be great to have their motivation and talent in a community not dependent on reddit's good will.
Some people just wanna watch the world burn.