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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 178 points 2 years ago (52 children)

I really don't get why they're doing this.

Reddit has already showed how much it cares about its users. We've tried going private, we've tried going restricted, we've tried going NSFW, we've tried spamming John Oliver posts, we've tried asking nicely in open letters, and Reddit has consistently given its community the middle finger in every single situation. And now that we've seen the admins change rules, remove mods, ban users, and break privacy laws, the plan is to just do the exact same thing they did before in the hopes that it'll work this time?

If a blackout on the platform was going to get Reddit to change its mind, that would've happened already. The time to induce change was two weeks ago, when the protests had lots of momentum. But it didn't work, and trying to make another stand now is going to be even less effective.

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives like /kbin, Lemmy, and Squabbles. Thankfully, some of the comments on the /r/ModCoord announcement are also saying this. Instead of desperately trying to cling to a platform that doesn't care about you, go somewhere else.

[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus they totally fucked up the messaging with the original blackout. It should have always included information about accessibility being taken away.

[–] spider@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It should have always included information about accessibility being taken away.

Indeed; they forgot to keep it simple.

Most people have no idea what all the API-related jargon means.

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