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My friend started using reddit about 3 years ago. He doesn't care about the blackout at all and told me I was being mad about a free service trying to make money. He'll just keep using it until he can't then lurk elsewhere. I told him to stop being an ass, but that's unlikely. His stupid attitude is shared by a vast swath of reddit and will ultimately lead to the site's total decay.
I think his attitude isn't stupid. He enjoys what he does and moves on once he doesn't or has to.
mindless consumption until the literal collapse of something is stupid.
I disagree. His attitude is understandable. That does not make it correct or good in any way. His attitude is destructive and is one of the main reasons our world is in such a mess these days as it's shared by too many.
That's not how you convince someone. You should explain to him how this is going to heavily impact his reddit experience in the near future. When all the mods and power users are successfully alienated, reddit is going down the drain. It's them who carry the platform, not the lurkers.
He's my best friend and calling him an ass is something I do every day. Anything less would have been met with suspicion!
I've explained the negative outcomes to him and he doesn't care. He'll float over to this community and bring his apathy with him. He's just old and jaded like me, just more so.
Look mate, I get you, but I also get your friend, I used reddit pretty much the same as your friend, just lurked, didn't used any third party apps, but I saw things go to shit and decided I want none of that, and let's be real, the site offed itself a while ago, the people that moved to lemmy and kbin realized that, and where techie enough to adapt to the new environment. Some people on reddit will realize that sometime, some won't, and that's perfectly fine, they will either adapt to the fediverse, move back to where they were before or stay on the decaying site, but whatever they, and your friend do, there's no reason for hostility, especially between you and your friend, the deed had been done, and now we get to rebuild our communities in such a great way that we couldn't ever imagined over reddit.
True, this 3rd party app business is really the straw that broke the camel's back with me. Reddit is not what it was and I'm not super fond of what it is at the moment. It was time to move on. Honestly, this experience has been the closest to what Reddit one was for me. I like it!
Oh, and he's my best friend. I call him an ass and worse daily. He'd expect no less. Still love the dumb bastard like a brother!