If subreddits aren't going black for good/until /u/spez stops changing posts he doesn't like and backs down you're only wasting user's time. Gritting your teeth for a few days is easy; doing the same until someone blinks is another.
/r/apple is going indefinite. Awesome stuff. I am guessing there is a heavy overlap of /r/apple users and Apollo users.
Makes sense. If I did buy one of those devices (I find them overpriced), I would want to make it as nice as possible. Kudos to that community.
This blackout is awesome, it will be a great big blackout that will do great things. I am so great for praising such a great blackout
people downvoting don't understand a parody account
I just don't want to see this dude anymore.
Don't even concern yourself with what reddit is doing anymore. Just try to build a rich community with content here. It's up to us to make conversation interesting and engaging here.
All very true.
On the other hand, there is the popcorn value of watching Reddit burn itself down...
Reddit is going to go into a slow decline. It's not going to burn down.
What this is actually doing is allowing other general discussion sites to reach critical mass so that people who are sick of reddit but couldn't find anywhere else to go (such as myself) have a choice.
Reddit is like the Wal Mart of internet discussion forums. Some people shop at Wal Mart because they want to, and some people shop there because they drove all the other stores out of business and they're the only place left.
Awesome. I'm done with reddit. There is enough random new content posted here to keep me occupied and we're not even federating yet. Hopefully this catches on and my favorite communities migrate over. I was going to quit once sync shutdown, anyway, but no need to wait.
I vote for indefinite darkness until Spez is gone AND they pull back on all this bullshit!!
r/Videos already said they will not reopen unless reddit makes changes to their recent decisions. I'm not very optimistic but I hope other main subs will follow. Because let's face it, a 2 days blackout is not going to accomplish much. A protest should end only if the leaders die or accept to the demands of their people, not just 2 days.
A sub like /r/videos will eventually be brought back online. The site admins will remove the mods and replace them with ones that don't care and want the "power" (do janitors have power?). They'll remove the mods who were protesting and take away any of their mod privileges, maybe even ban them outright. That wouldn't surprise me one bit at all, par for the course for Spez.
I guess that's a possibility, but where will spez find masochistic people who have to deal with abuse, spam, CP, far-right bullshit holocaust deniers every second of their day for free? Reddit mods may seem on a power trip and almighty super proud people but they are still what keeps reddit not turning into voat or 8chan. And they do it for free. Then reddit reaps the profits. Something's not right.
