• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Feels like everything will be over soon and it’s going on like before.

    This is why scheduling it ahead of time to last for 48 hours was a monumentally stupid idea.
    If workers form a union and they go on a strike, and they told the boss they’re striking for 2 days, The boss can just wait it out and get back to whatever they were doing before after the strike.
    This is essentially a content creators strike from Reddit, telling the admins that everything will be back to normal in 2 days gives them the opportunity to wait it out without having to cave to any of the demands.
    I really enjoyed this community so far and watching it grow immensely over the past 24 hours or so, and it kind of feels depressing that most of the people are just going to leave and go back to Reddit tomorrow.

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      They’ll be back here again in 2-ish weeks when Apollo and RIF are done.

      And when mlem and other apps start rolling out for Lemmy, we’ll start seeing shifts. Apps that have proper accessibility, a clean UI, lack advertising and don’t eat data. And they give you the same Reddit experience without Reddit’s predatory business strategy.

      When the blackouts stop, a lot of users will be able to search for Reddit alternatives and will find Lemmy… through Reddit.

      I mod a sub with 65K users or so, I plan to go dark indefinitely. Also considering Read-Only with a sticky redirecting here. I know I’m not the only mod.

      The Digg > Reddit migration wasn’t overnight. It was fast, though.

        • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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          That’s because it’s actually still alpha ;)

          Definitely plenty of kinks to work out. Give it time, it’s still very new.

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          I was using Jerboa before, but honestly I think just using the browser page for Lemmy is better. Load up your preferred instance in your phone’s web browser and then in your browser options hit “add as app” or “add to home screen”

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            Huh never saw that “install app” on Chrome before, just “add to home screen”. Is this just like a shell that hides the address bar?

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              Basically yes. Some websites are more designed for it than others and behave as what’s called a “progressive web app”. If you ever hear PWA, basically what that means is that it’s a browser app pretending to be a desktop app.

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        Yea, I keep thinking this. Once there’s an app on Android and iOS, one that can explain the fediverse simply and is well designed, many of the Apollo, RIF, and Sync users will jump over.

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      I think another major miscalculation is there was no alternatives agreed on by consensus. For example, if they had said to everyone “go to Lemmy”, “go to discord” etc. Now there’s no alternative to a lot of subreddits, people will just wait it out and go back to the subreddits when they go back, or if they’re indefinitely suspended they’ll just make new subreddits.

      • I second this, and it has been bugging me since people started talking about the blackout. I think the big issue is that the people organizing the 48hr blackout are the mods. These are the people that have invested the most into reddit, and they dont want to give up that investment into their subreddits. They don’t want to leave reddit, and giving people an agreed upon alternative would be permanently fracturing their little fiefdom. They want to make a statement, and then for things to go back to the way they were, hoping that their tiny act of defiance makes a difference. The migration has to be led by users, but the issue of fractured lemmy communities is going to be hard to navigate unless lemmy introduces a way for communities to link together.

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      It’s only a bad idea if you think you could win concessions with an indefinite strike.

      Reddit might get a bunch of subs back tomorrow, but the admin were always going to reopen the good names via reddit request anyway.

      And the mods and users aren’t likely to go back to happily posting and working for free on a platform that’s turned. Communities will be planning organized migrations, and a lot of people here who came because of the strike will discover they like it better here actually.

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      While I don’t think this was anyone’s plan, I think setting it for two days was brilliant by accident. It was short enough (and long enough) that spez dismissed it and pissed people off even more.

      It would have been much harder to rally subs to turn off permanently immediately. By doing this, you ease everyone into the idea that this is an indefinite blackout.

      The next step will be Reddit admins forcibly taking control of subs that stay blacked out too long for their liking, which will drive even more momentum to stand up to them.

      I think this was actually just about the only way for them to completely fuck Reddit over. At this point, spez will need to be fired and the changes rolled back or Reddit has zero chance of a meaningful recovery.

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        Not to mention this will likely damage their attempt at an IPO later this year. Advertisers and potential stock owners won’t want to deal with a company who can’t “control” its users. It’s too volatile. Stockholders want their revenue to always increase, but even potential for something like this after Reddit potentially goes public would cause Reddit’s stock to go down.

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      Yeah, that was a really dumb idea. The subreddits closing indefinitely like r/videos are probably not gonna be enough to make Reddit cave. I wonder if they can even cave though. Maybe believing spez is a dumb idea but if Reddit really isn’t profitable they might need the money from ads and selling data since they are going public

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      Maybe I am being pessimistic, but asking volunteer reddit mods to drop tools for more than 48h during such an interesting time for the platform is feeling about as realistic as asking your alcoholic uncle to stay sober at a wedding reception with an open bar. Can they really stay away?