this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
307 points (100.0% liked)
World News
22057 readers
104 users here now
Breaking news from around the world.
News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
For US News, see the US News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Ah, so the blackout isn't as "unsuccessful" as he wants people to believe it to be...
Yeah, really. Didn't the actual blackout technically end a few days ago? Seems that it didn't just go away.
Over 50% isn't too bad at this point in the game. We'll see if it drops lower over/after the weekend, but that is still a significant portion of subreddits, which are the only thing that generates content for reddit. I don't this this will actually do anything, and I am done with reddit now. I never felt attached to it, and I have found active communities on lemmy for most of my subs, and the community is way better here. I don't need reddit anymore.
Plus the top dozen subs only make up like a few percentage points of the ones that pledged to blackout. So if those are still out then it's still crippling. Like pics, funny, videos, etc
Pics and gifs is just doing sexy John Oliver posts only now. It was decided via community vote.
So now if he wants to change something he is clearly going against the community.
That's when you'll see a huge exodus again
I mean, there had been news about reddit forcibly removing mods and making private subreddits go public again, so I don't know how many of the subs actually left the protest.
Some just opened to ask the users if they should close again, too.
What users? I have not been on Reddit at all this week.
Other than going on to see how empty My feed is due to the blackout.
If any Reddit mods see this. I vote in favor of total Black with a message redirecting users to a new lemmy commmunity.
The lemmy iOS apps may still be in early beta, but they are better than the official Reddit app.
Right. I don't think spez realizes that most of the blacked out communities themselves actually support the black outs. A lot of them had votes on the matter. They had healthy discussion about it. These mods are not overruling their communities.
What if the mods were all like. Let’s just say it’s 48 hours…
Maybe it’s more than a lot of noise