It's not going to have a direct material effect, but it's going to affect perception. There are already people cautious about corporate influence on Linux, and a Linux distro getting closed like this is going to be seen negatively. While Fedora and RedHat are separate entities, they're close enough for one's perception to rub off on the other.
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Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can't think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.
The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he's not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.
It temporarily boosts activity, but that's useless activity. It's not going to help Reddit in the long run, and in fact will diminish Reddit's value if it goes on long enough.
Yeah, I've seen some people upset about these things and complain that it doesn't stop the flow of traffic, and that in fact it may increase interest in Reddit. Some want the blackout to continue indefinitely. But that's impossible since Reddit will just force the subs open and replace the mods. So the next best thing is malicious compliance. Sure, Reddit will still see traffic from people curious about what's going on, but these meme-y protests is still rendering the site essentially unusable while still keeping to the letter of Reddit's demands.
I assume they're realistic enough to know that this really won't go anywhere and that the whole point of the discussion is simply to make some noise.
Except if r/worldnews posted Onion articles, all they'll be doing is predicting the future.
So should the opposite faction be called tractorie?
Not sure if Firefox for iOS allows for extensions, but if it does, you can install Tampermokey on it and add the userscript. I'm using Hermit on Android to have kbin installed as a PWA, and it supports userscripts in the premium version (a one-time payment). Works well so far.
It's a matter of preference. Some people may want greater control over what instances they federate with. Some people just want to tinker with the kbin software and play around with it. Others choose to do it so that can have a custom domain or so they can have a username that's been taken elsewhere. The beauty of the Fediverse is that it doesn't really matter that much where you go, since you more or less have access to pretty much everything anyway.
https://fedia.io is the other big kbin instance. There are probably others, but they're either not as well-known yet or are personal instances.
Of course they're claiming responsibility for the John Oliver thing. Considering their history, I doubt it. But even if they were involved, it's the community at large that was responsible for the John Oliverification of Reddit.