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Yeah it actually makes me feel like there's some astroturf going on. The "reddit defense" backlash seemed to start very suddenly, some while after spez's comments about how the blackout wasn't hurting them got popularized and people started renewing the subreddit blackouts. Almost everyone seemed at least tenatively supportive up to that point, then suddenly these waves of hardcore "reddit did nothing wrong, won't someone PLEASE think of the profits! Everything's fine, just keep posting here, fellow users!" HailCorporate-style comments start pouring into every subreddit and every thread talking about the issue seemingly simultaneously. These is something that seems deeply disingenuous about all of those comments.
Yeah I saw the thread where dndnext announced they were gonna do the John Oliver thing and everyone in the comments was complaining. Even though the poll showed overwhelming support. Almost like the comments were being astroturfed
I observed this too. Almost two weeks ago (when all of this started blowing up) the overwhelming majority of people who were talking about jumping that sinking ship were upvoted and supported. Folks were discussing the best platforms to migrate to, etc. Then a few days ago I noticed all of sudden a heap of really negative anti-fediverse comments had cropped up. While I'm not some all seeing eye that can perceive all Reddit comments and analyse the data, it was such a big, stark and sudden shift.
I realise it seems cynical and entering into conspiracy theory territory but I like to think I've lived through enough of the interwebs at this point (I was on BBS' before the internet was a thing in my country) and rationally learned enough about corporate corruption, astroturfing and fake reviews to be at least suspicious that something more is going on.