Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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a lot of people back on Reddit could not give less of a shit about the issues and just want their content; they even see this as just mods powertripping again

it's kind of annoying to see that, tbh, even if I sort of get it

A look at their comment histories might be interesting, to see if they're the ones contributing content worth reading.

I suspect I can guess the answer.

it's kind of annoying to see that

Why would that be annoying? It means the strike is working, it does exactly what it is meant to do. If the consumers don't find content, they will ultimately move elsewhere

they could easily have their cake and eat it too by signing up to lemmy. There are a lot of instances out there and they could make their own if none fit.

but that's not immediate and requires some work and effort (to figure out how federation works, to figure out how Lemmy works, to learn how to create an instance and to make one, to start over with an entirely new community); many on Reddit want the easiest path to get their content

which again, understandable, but still annoying to see

Damn, the apathy is strong but I do get it. After all, Reddit was mostly a place for me to deflate and relax or just read things during downtime.

I haven't seen that. Everyone seems to be rather upset about Apollo, RIF, Relay, etc. The only person I've seen suggesting power tripping mods is u/spez.