Words mean nothing to fascists, they want you dead regardless if you’re not considered to be one of them. Anyone who is “different” or an “other” is a target for those fucks.
I’m just your average Canadian arctic wolf. I’m a siren enthusiast and railfan as my main hobbies. I run the Civil Defense Sirens Wiki, and am working on restoring a few vintage sirens (such as a FS&S Model L and a rare Sterling Siren MOD. F) as well as a 1970s Safetran mechanical crossing bell.
Words mean nothing to fascists, they want you dead regardless if you’re not considered to be one of them. Anyone who is “different” or an “other” is a target for those fucks.
Have you not been paying attention to what’s been going on? The protests have done serious damage to Reddit’s reputation, the viability of its IPO, and is causing a significant drop in the number of users. Not to mention the loss of content creators and moderators who are necessary for the site to function. The protests are intentionally making the site unusable to bore and drive out those who are reasonable, and leaving only those who shill for and lick the boots of Spez and the rest of the incompetent administration team. And without content to consume, those people will leave as well.
Always used RIF, the stock Reddit app has always been unusably terrible.
There’s also hurting the “others” at any cost, even against their own interests
There’s definitely some hardcore shilling and astroturfing in a lot of subs where blackouts and John Oliver memes have become the norm. People with no posting history, brand new accounts and low karma accounts have flooded in to insult the mods and attack the protest.
I haven’t used Reddit for more than 5 minutes since the blackout. The site clearly has absolutely zero interest in changing their terrible decisions, and they’ve shown their hand to everyone. I’m fully moved onto the Fediverse, and I feel all the better for it. I’d been using RIF since 2019, and I refuse to use the stock Reddit app. The community here is wonderful.
It’s an inherently self-destructive, unsustainable ideology. None of them think that they’ll become a victim of their own ideology until the Gestapo knocks on their door.
I certainly think it will be, enshittification has become a problem that’s plaguing so many platforms and companies, and more and more people are becoming aware of it.
And like cancer, it will eventually kill its host once things are beyond saving.
Without lube.