I’m very new to Lemmy, I’m trying to see how it all works and what happens here. But honestly I feel like it might be a little too decentralized? Like, I know it’s the point but I feel like this doesn’t make for the best experience. Communities can be on any particular instance, and you can have repeats of communities for the same things. This feels overcomplicated, but I understand why it’s that way.
Also, how many people are actually doing a full switch from Reddit? I personally don’t intend on leaving Reddit, I’m just leaving temporarily, but not for any specific amount of time. I think that’s what most people will do, or I guess I hope so, because Lemmy still has a long way to go before it gets good enough to make a competition, especially considering the drawbacks I said before, and I don’t want us to lose all those communities that went black indefinetly, even if I supported the decision.
The point of the blackout was to protest, expecting an end to it all, although many are already wishing for an end for Reddit altogether from what I can see.
Idk, I still hope Reddit doesn’t die tbh, I hope they listen to reason and backtrack a bit, or we find a way to bypass the restrictions somehow, I think I saw a revanced patch to many Sync work iirc, so maybe there’s hope still.
they’ve basically already said they won’t. With communities only shutting down for a day or two, it really doesn’t create any incentive at all for Reddit to fix their ways. They’ll just wait it out, things will go back to how they were before, and nobody has achieved anything at all. Either we actually make it hurt by staying away, or we won’t and then they know it’s OK to do this kind of thing, and they’ll keep doing it because at worst people will just stay away for a day or two. Not a big deal.
And not even that. There are still an incredible amount of people active on there afaik. So I’ve given up at trying to convince people to stay. Let the people who want to leave leave. Our communities might just be better off for it. I’m definitely sticking around. Fuck Reddit.
Yep.
Hopefully a large amount of moderators and contributors keep staying away from Reddit, that’ll drastically lower the quality of the site and thus their money making ability.
I’m definitely staying away.
A lot of mods were using 3rd party apps right? So maybe the quality degrades significantly enough.
Yes, many have come out and said that they simply won’t be able to properly moderate once third party apps die.
And even relying on those free accessibility focused apps won’t help because I’m pretty sure they have a strategy in place for getting rid of those as well. So yeah.
People misunderstand one thing; The 48 hours is a start.
There are subs who immediately blacked out for indefinitely (r/videos and r/music are the biggest ones as I remember).
From the subs I did read before it all started they stated that they would start for 48 hours, evaluate their stance after and behave accordingly.
I would be suprised to see every sub just go public again after 48 hours and go on as nothing happened.
There will be subs that will do that though and I wish those good luck for the future, but I am sure a portion will protest further.
I really do hope that’s the case. I’m a bit skeptical but I really do wish.