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  • Damaniel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m glad to see there’s been more of a push for previously ‘48 hours only’ subreddits to move to an indefinite blackout - but I wish that more of them had committed earlier. That leaked internal email shows exactly what I already expected; they just see the protesting Redditors as a bunch of whiny babies who they expect to give up after a couple days and forget the whole thing.

    • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m not giving up. 11 year account deleted. I might read stuff on Reddit from time to time, but it will be without an account, in a private tab, through a vpn, with an ad blocker on.

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          1 year ago

          i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

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            1 year ago

            Seems on brand after the CEO doubled down on falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail, even though the Apollo dev posted the recordings proving otherwise.

          • crank@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

            To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

            • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              Well in a world where people will attack a fast food worker for their order being wrong, it’s probably prudent to make sure the employees you are responsible for are protected.

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                1 year ago

                was hovering over the link like “is this going to be a rick roll or something?”

                so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

                a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this “first post” joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about “last post” if you are a person who has “last post” powers.

          • jimmy@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            It at least seems like an attempt to push an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

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          1 year ago

          i like the part where he implies that redditors are so deranged they will physically assault his employees.

    • mike@s.jape.work
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      1 year ago

      there are also a lot of subreddits that went readonly. which doesn’t hurt much. when the first google result for something is a functional readonly reddit page, reddit has succeeded. When the first result I click is a message about the issue we’re facing that is much worse for reddit.

      At the same time, the couple of subs posting the images and only the images are causing /r/all to have some anti-reddit commentary.

      Either way, r/all doesnt look that different. Ok, normal-reddit-for-thing isnt on the front page, instead smaller-reddit-for-thing is there.

      I’m sure moderators will plan more, but I think it’s going to be difficult to maintain coordination and whether I like it or not, I get reddits approach to just ignore this.

      • Abel@lemmy.nerdcore.social
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        It’s functional for the users, but not for Reddit who wants more data/engagement.

        But yeah, the smaller reddit thingy is true. r/thesims4 was open when r/sims4 was not.