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Took a peek on Reddit, it really boggles my mind how oblivious and obedient people are. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except those people went to twitter, Instagram, and tiktok for their memes, news, and funny moments. All the major subs that I subscribed to are back on and people are back as usual there. The blackout was useless and another lazy version of internet activism, and it made people hate the mods instead of Reddit for “power tripping.” Literally made people side with Reddit because of that lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had a different experience, to be honest. The sub I am more active in, /r/Italy is open, but it has still a ridiculous activity, and most of the active users wanted an indefinite blackout. A sibling sub, italyinformatica is even more desert (yesterday last post was 4 days ago). I think that in principle the blackout is a very effective way to protest, it worked like a charm to keep me off the site, at least, but I agree that saying "we do it for 2 days" undermines the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe it depends on which sub you're in and the type of people they attract, but in many popular subs I have been in, the whole blackout thing has been a dud and has sent the absolute wrong message to people, blaming the mods powertripping.

Once again, it affects US and the whole thing worked with US because we're the only ones that care about this shit. The ones that don't, the ones that use the regular app, who are not aware of the 3rd party apps or even hated the 3rd party apps, who are the majority of reddit users, did not care at all. And we have this bias that we can't absolutely shake off, that the majority of reddit users agree with us. No, that was not the case at all. We end up sounding delusional as hell.

What we're doing right now, using a different website to discuss topics and such, is a much more effective way to protest things than just blacking out a bunch of subs.