hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • Damaniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    I’m glad to see there’s been more of a push for previously ‘48 hours only’ subreddits to move to an indefinite blackout - but I wish that more of them had committed earlier. That leaked internal email shows exactly what I already expected; they just see the protesting Redditors as a bunch of whiny babies who they expect to give up after a couple days and forget the whole thing.

    • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      I’m not giving up. 11 year account deleted. I might read stuff on Reddit from time to time, but it will be without an account, in a private tab, through a vpn, with an ad blocker on.

        • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

          • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
            6·
            2 years ago

            Seems on brand after the CEO doubled down on falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail, even though the Apollo dev posted the recordings proving otherwise.

          • jimmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            It at least seems like an attempt to push an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

          • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

            To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

            • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Well in a world where people will attack a fast food worker for their order being wrong, it’s probably prudent to make sure the employees you are responsible for are protected.

              • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                was hovering over the link like “is this going to be a rick roll or something?”

                so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

                a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this “first post” joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about “last post” if you are a person who has “last post” powers.