It isn't. I don't care what happens to reddit. I want to move on, so the only thing that matters (to me) is the success of alternative communities such as lemmy.

[–] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Right? I'm liking Lemmy so far but the armchair activist "here's how we hurt Reddit" fixation is cringe as hell. I'm here to argue with strangers, look at cute animals, and read memes about tabletop games dammit. I'm here because I'm done with Reddit, not because I have some dumb chip on my shoulder and can't stop thinking about it.

[–] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the whole idea of Reddit was just bad.

Aside from the API issues it had serious problems in the past with Admin overreach and like 90% of the most popular subreddits being controlled by a small cabal (some of whom were even corrupt, using their position for monetary gain).

The decentralised nature of the Fediverse is just a superior model (for the actual users, not for monetising the platform).

[–] animist@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah let reddit keep its shitposters, bots, alt-right chuds, and everyone else who ruins good conversation. Better that they all have a place to go so they can stay away from us

[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, let it sit and stew.

[–] aclarkc@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

100% Reddit isn’t going to die overnight. We can take as big of a bite out of the IPO as possible though.

[–] BlueForestDev@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is delusional on multiple levels. Reddit owns the subs. They will simply replace mods of the biggest subs, smaller subs will falter and some will be replaced by other content if reddit allows them to stay shut down.

It's funny seeing the meltdown of mods as if they're holding it all together when there are hundreds of people in line to replace them - for free. Besides if a subs content goes to shit new ones spring up. Reddit is that big.

It was a nice but meaningless statement that won’t accomplish anything except shutting down some fan favorite subs.
Normies don’t care, normies probably didn’t even know the protest was happening or why it was happening until some of their subs went dark. And last I checked comments on reddit the most upvoted are making fun of mods and their shutdown.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the mods have juicy info on the admins, currently not sure about their relation if they're pro-admin or anti-admin.

[–] BlueForestDev@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Juicy in what way? Pedo-admins like Aimee Chanellor or more vote manipulation?

I don't think any of this matters much for reddit unless spez is me-too'd or somehow nuked on a smilar level.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Both. Probably Spez's involvement surrounding Ghislaine Maxwell, I reckon.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely. That's where it'll really hurt them.

[–] killerbees@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Wait for the IPO announcement. Schedule a Quit Reddit Day (similar to Quit Digg Day) the day after the IPO. Get some celebrities (Wil, Arnold, Linus) onboard to make statements in other social media to spook the investors.

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