The stupidity is insane.

Many of those people don't really care because they don't think it will affect them or don't really understand what that whole thing means. All they care about is being able to scroll.

There was a poll about the future with the protest of a Subreddit I am part of and many voted for staying open with the reasoning "it hurts the community".

While I would agree with the Argument that being private on a tech-oriented Subreddit is bad because all of the accumulated knowledge will be inaccessible so troubleshooting will not work or be as good. But then you could just be restricted and have both, keeping the protest going but not locking out help to common troubleshooting.

All they see now is that they are inconvenienced by the whole thing and they don't like it without understanding that many others will have a much worse impact and the future state of the Subreddits could be much worse or take longer to moderate impacting everyone.

But this is not something they can see or understand.

Man when I first realised that Relay for Reddit is still working, I legit thought that Reddit's strategy was to just scare people into shutting down third party apps without wasting a dime on actually upgrading their API lol

Meanwhile half the subs have gone into protest mode in all sorts of ways... My favorite is r/madlads who gave all users mod privileges, in true madlads fashion

Edit: can you link to a resource explaining the custom patching thing? Sounds interesting, might try it out

Yup, at the end of the day I feel like most of the casual reddit community does not give 2 shits about how bad this whole ordeal is and just want their daily fix of content. I'm guessing it's mostly new users too, since they're already used to the new app.

It sucks but hopefully sites like Lemmy get up to pace

Spez is so incompetent he can't even keep up with his own stupidity.