Sorry, but I’ve just come over from nbacirlejerk and I’ve become convinced this is the stupidest shit in existence lol r/nba closed down during the biggest game of the season so that, like, a handful of developers could sell apps?
If you’re so into reddit that you have to download an app, it’s gulag time.
I don’t give a shit about reddit, their users or their mods.
I think it is good that it happened. It has/will accomplish nothing for Reddit, but it will also demonstrate to the libs once again that their slacktivism is a dead end. Meanwhile, Lemmy is up to 120,000 users (plus another 10,000 on Kbin), which is an absolute sea change. Of course, they are Redditors, which isn’t great for Lemmy, but the proliferation of AGPL federated social media is a victory none the less.
I think there is some potential for social media strikes like this. If this action took the form of a user/mod union, with actual organization, a negotiating committee, and more serious leverage at their disposal, it could have potentially did something. Although ultimately inconsequential, the blackout was a much better showing than anything which materialized on Twitter in protest of Elon’s changes.
I think it is good that it happened, but was way too tame which defeated it. I also think future user strikes, really would only work if there were sympathizers inside the parent company that would strike with them.
“lol”
They’re talking about making the “blackout” indefinite, like a real strike. I think there’s a lot of agitated moderators who could be convinced to further organize there.
