• borlax@lemmy.borlax.com
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    2 years ago

    It kinda stinks that within the same post we see a call to leave Reddit but also a list of Reddit links…

    Says a lot about the hold Reddit knows they have on a large portion of the internet’s information.

    I really want us to be able to move on from Reddit, but it’s gonna be very difficult and uncomfortable to make that adjustment.

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      2 years ago

      Heard. I consider the Reddit blackout a mix of labor unionism and anti-corporate overlord behavior, and I absolutely love to be a part of it! Change takes effort, time, and inconvenience. My seven year old Reddit account with 26k karma has been deleted, along with a portion of my small business income that came from posting to Reddit. There is only one right or power that is absolutely unalienable: the right to say “no” and take the consequences. Exercise it.

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        2 years ago

        Hell yeah! I feel the same way! We have to be the change we want to see in the world, even when it comes to something as seemingly trivial as social media.

        Hoping your business can recover that through other means, but it says a lot about your convictions to be ready and able to take that hit.

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      2 years ago

      It kinda stinks that within the same post we see a call to leave Reddit but also a list of Reddit links…

      We should implement a rule that if you include a reddit link in your post, you also have to provide a Screenshot of it for the people who don’t want to give reddit any more clicks than necessary.

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      2 years ago

      It will take time for reddit to become irrelevant. In the meantime, it’s a reddit conflict. Of course it will play out on reddit. That also contributes to the people who have the most stake in the conflict - reddit users - to be exposed to the details of the conflict.