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Yeah this is why I think the 48 hour time limit is unfortunate. I don't think it's going to have much long term effect, and the only real difference is going dark indefinitely until demands are met or just migrating elsewhere.
Thing is, ultimately people do have a choice as to whether they want to continue using Reddit without third-party apps.
I agree that regardless of any blackouts, Reddit will be fine in the end - most people simply don't mind using a Facebook-ified version of Reddit, and that's fine.
My hope isn't that Reddit will fall, it's that alternatives (like Lemmy) will rise, for those of us that do care about these issues.
Why not both?
Well, I'm not OP but there are a few demographics I'd rather remain in Reddit, far away from this place.
I'm sure there's many newly arrived redditors that wished you stayed back there as well and some lemmyversians that wished you all went somewhere else ayy lmao
How i i block an instance like exploding-heads.com
Seems to be a maga shithole
How does one block an instance like exploding-heads.com
Seems to be a maga shithole
Also not OP: Both would be fine, but I don't care about what happens to Reddit since I don't intend to use it anymore. I do care what happens to Lemmy because I want to continue using it.
While I certainly wouldn't be against Reddit (or any corporation) failing, I don't see a reason to hope for it.
At the end of the day, all Reddit is doing its changing the terms of the agreement between them and their users. Some will agree to the new terms, some (like me) won't. And despite what people are saying, in the end, that's okay. Things ate allowed to change, and things are allowed to end.
I totally get why people feel hurt and upset about this sudden and major shift, but if I was angry at them for restricting access to their website, it feels paradoxical to react by wanting the website gone. It's just revenge for the sake of revenge.
I dunno, I'm still feeling this all out too, but I guess I just think the best way forward is to offer alternatives so that people don't feel trapped by one company's decisions.
I do. I find their business practice to be unwanted, I want less companies to treat their users like that. Having companies that behaves like reddit go under will make other companies not behave like that. And if it doesn't, we'll run out of companies that behaves like reddit because they've all crashed and burned.
It's not revenge. It's not hate. It's me hoping there will less of what I consider bad in the world. If anything, it's love towards the future me and you.
And sure things are allowed to change and end, but it's still a tragedy when something beautiful is drained of it's lifeblood because of greed. Like what slowly happened to reddit over close to a decade.
There is a list of 300+ subs that are staying dark indefinitely. Some have tens of millions of subs. I expect that list will grow as more of this stuff comes out.
I vote for migrating elsewhere.