I poked my head in this morning after staying away a couple of days. I’ve been on the fence about whether this event spells the end of my time on Reddit or not. I think it does. The comments like OP shows in his meme, combined with the behavior of Spez since the blackouts - that’s just not something I want to be a part of. I don’t want to contribute in the smallest way to the continued dominance of Reddit in that category of social media platform.
I’ll mull it over another few days, but pretty sure my main account is getting deleted this week. I have a secondary account that I might just stop using, but (due to what I use it for) am not quite sure I want to delete yet.
Probably means I need a new kbin account too, since I din’t really consider whether “runningfrommreddit” was a name I’d want to potentially use for years when I set it up. 😁
I appreciate the often simultaneous complaints that:
- A) The protests weren’t impactful enough
- B) The protests should just end already because they’ve been negatively impacted
Like, guys… either be nihilists or reactionaries, but don’t try to be both at once. Strikes hurt everyone; that’s the point.
People hate protesters in general, they don’t like disruption.
I agreed with the mods in /r/gis that there should be an indefinite blackout and got downvoted. Some person even called me “fucking stupid.” That place is such a toxic dumpster fire. I’m happy for kbin/lemmy.
