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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The loss of the forum like help threads will probably be the most impactful thing. We can build communities elsewhere, but the 8 years old post about a problem only you and the OP is having is super valuable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There was talk of someone populating a Lemmy instance with reddit data.

There is a lot of reddit data on a torrent somewhere aparrently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel that. I posted about a Plex problem 2 years ago and the subsequent solution I worked out. Every once in a while I still get someone replying to that and thanking me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is great, many more subreddits should do something like this. But in the end, it’s us, the end users, who should do the actual protesting since it’s us who have the power to change things. I’ve decided not to give them any kind of traffic from now on. Me, by myself, won’t make much impact but if more of us did the same they’d be force to change their strategy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Subreddits doing this will have a much bigger impact than end users, because large masses of people will never do anything inconvenient on their own. This is the reason why capitalism doesn't self-regulate for better environmental standards, for an example. The whole personal carbon footprint thing was invented by an oil company to shame individuals so we can blame eachother for our consumption instead of regulating energy companies. Nothing changes if we rely on everyone to do the right thing without any external motivations (be it environmental regulations or closing subreddits).

That's not to say you shouldn't also look at your own actions - personally I deleted Apollo on my phone and blocked the reddit domains on my work laptop and home network. But big players (I.e big subreddits) need to be part of the change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great video on the carbon footprint campaign: https://youtu.be/1J9LOqiXdpE

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a shame promoting Lemmy isn't part of the blackout

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been attempted in various spots, but either reddit itself removes the mentions or edits them out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that really something that's been happening?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My comment just got downvoted, but it's still there (and has reactions of other migratees to lemmy, so not invisible).