Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected.
There was a disturbing tone in some of the messages though. It was a form of cynicism essentially backing Reddit to do whatever it wanted to the devs, and that it was wrong to protest the rule changes as we should be okay with whatever Reddit wanted. It was almost like learned helplessness. I genuinely found it to be disturbing. Is anyone else noticing this in their communities/subs?
Keep 2 things in mind
/r/conservative assholes are running amuck across all of reddit at the moment.
And, Reddit has been known to astroturf comments in the past and I 100% guarantee that they are probably working on that to some extent right now.
Why would /r/conservative support killing third-party apps though? I don’t really see the connection.
I don’t think people are united in their views about Reddit. I’ve seen a bunch of conservatives complaining that Reddit is a “woke leftist hive-mind cesspool” and that it deserves to die. So I guess they support the blackouts because it’ll lead to Reddit’s death. Oh, and they also claim that Twitter is great now that all the “leftists” fled the platform because they were getting banned by Elon Musk.
The Internet is weird sometimes.
If people generally to the left support something they automatically oppose it, and a lot of the big leftist and liberal sites were the first ones on this blackout train.
Like this isn’t being mean, they’ll admit they do that. They’re proud of it.
Yeah, that sub seems pretty dumb tbh so it doesn’t surprise me.
Probably because they are less conservative and more … Contrarian?
Yeah, I guess they just want to “pwn the libs” by being made to use the awful first party app and have all the adverts etc.
I think the decentralised nature of lemmy, kbin etc. is much more in line with the libertarian ideals that some of the right have though.
What you’re realising here is right wing libertarianism isn’t real, it’s an excuse to allow people to do horrible things to eachother. They’re still very happy to ban things they don’t like.
I mean it’s also /r/conservative not /r/libertarian or whatever. So I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to hold those libertarian values in any case.
Yeah, but take a look in any thread and they’re 24/7 jerking off about how they’re freedom lovers or whatever.
Yeah, it’s not really a coherent worldview. I don’t entirely agree with libertarianism but at least it’s much more coherent. They aren’t like all for freedom, but then against gay rights or whatever.
Hedging your bet there I see. :-)
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