I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[–] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah unfortunately with today's attention span no protest really works

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not about attention span, it's about media control. People stop hearing about a protest, and then it... Goes away for them.

In this particular case, though, these are a combination of people who were not seriously impacted by the blackouts, and who have been but choose to resent the people who are speaking up or acting because they're "rocking the boat".

[–] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true, and unfortunately most everything is controlled by someone with an agenda

[–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be happy if the vast majority of people stay on Reddit, smaller communities are usually the most friendly.

[–] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's true and they manage to have better information.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

no protest really works

I feel this particular protest worked very well!

reddirt made concessions, like exempting mod tools, and maybe even something for visually impaired people? But mostly it gave the fediverse a nice boost. Many people moved.

I wish climate protests had so much result in so little time with so little effort.