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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Thank you! All the effort people are making to make Lemmy like Reddit. With the bots reposting content here to “seed communities.” FFS, why did these people leave, then!? Same with, “but I want to see all the content on Threads!” Then join Threads. Lemmy is Lemmy. Please let it stay that way. People lose sight of the main point of the protest: the community of users. Those folks moved here and elsewhere. It’s those people, not bots or astroturfing communities, who are going to make Lemmy/Squabbles/Spyke/etc. great places.
A lot of people do.
What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.
And also even though lots of people like to say there's no "competition" between Reddit and the Fediverse, that's not actually true. Social networks need a critical mass of people participating in order for them to be good. The two systems might not be in financial competition but they are in competition for users.
That's an excellent point and very true.
besides, talking about news, reddit or not, is one of the main things communities on aggregator sites like lemmy or reddit do
Not that enriched if you're trying to insult people with "OK, Boomer".
I do. It’s about justice. Call me crazy, but I actively want to see companies that spite their users and customers lose. Reddit behaved like a mad dictator and didn’t value the only thing that made them valuable. And what‘s worse: they didn’t know it. They can F directly off until they turn back and apologize, at a minimum. Not so we can all go back to Reddit, because for me, that ship is sailed. But I’d prefer not having such deep disrespect for other humans, and I feel that action would be somewhat redeeming.
I can browse kbin, without it bitching at me to download its app constantly. Good enough for me.
Oh wait wut they have NFTs?
They've been selling NFT avatars and avatar parts for a bit now. They're not like, $1800 single unit ape pics, but they are a limited run set of digital items purchased for real money. They actually gave most people one for free like 2 years ago or something.
Well gee whiz, I have this little doggy avatar picture thing that I got... somehow? I assume that's what you mean. I had no idea those were NFTs or that they were actually selling them. I just thought it was some stupid achievement I accidentally got.