Reddit

I have to say imo it would be awesome if the "Rexxit" leads to a split between people interested in tech and ready for change and the "normies" that just want to see funny cat pictures. I am mightily impressed by the whole Lemmyverse and all the stuff one can do here.

I do think the blackouts are pointless, but I absolutely do not support Reddit Inc. in any way.

What the moderators should do instead of blackouts, is to stop moderating and let all the major subreddits be overrun by spam and hatespeech. Good luck with your IPO and with finding advertisers after that. That would have been a much more effective way to communicate how valuable the volunteers at Reddit are.

To me the main reason for the protest is not 3rd party apps themselves, but the fact that when these are gone, they will have full control on user data (both personal and posts) and how its presented. Even if you just look at cat pictures, they can then potentially do stuff like feeding you with whatever post or idea they want/ get paid to promote. E.g. Youtube now sorts comments in the most convenient way to make you feel good and watch more videos when you scroll down, stuff like this it's scary to me...

I don't care.

Fuck me those comments were hard to read. You know what, I don't think I'm going to miss Reddit much.

The username of the commenter is so ironic. The guy who invented transcendental meditation did the same thing to meditation that spez did to reddit's API. TM is meditation's superfluous third nipple and heavily monetized. Anyone can meditate for free, but for it to be considered "transcendental", you must pay a certified teacher and learn through them. I guess some people just like it when people are charged for things unnecessarily.

When the blackouts started, I decided to leave reddit permanently for Lemmy, a decision that I don't regret. I checked back in briefly today and it seems like reddit is currently tearing itself apart. There's definitely a lot more people vocally disagreeing with the blackout now.