The Reddit was my go to. The place for advice. I learned a lot there.
But now, it's all John Oliver.
Usually I wouldn't complain about John Oliver. But this shit is getting ANNOYING. I WANNA LEARN ABOUT PIRACY GODDAMNIT. If a good service is shut down, I wouldn't be able to hear about it if it wasn't for you guys. If a website had a virus problem. If I was having trouble. Thank whoever made this website and this community. You're our only hope.
I'm glad you found your way here but FFS stop whining about John Oliver! Reddit mods are doing this for the greater good, the same reason why many of us are pirates, GREEDY CORPORATIONS.
People like you are the reason why Reddit will eventually win, grow up.
It’s incredibly childish to asume a bunch of John Oliver memes are going to make Reddit "lose". They’ll "win" no matter what.
Once people start getting tired of the John Oliver meme, they’ll either just stop and leave Reddit, or continue to use it normally. Mark my words: in 2 months, go and click the profiles of everyone memeing around with the Oliver stuff, and most of them will have normal activity on Reddit as if nothing had happened. And subs that continue with the memes are just going to be abandoned while replacement subs will surface and get bigger than the originals.
The only way Reddit is going to feel a hit is if hundreds of thousands people edit their entire comment and post history, delete their accounts, and never visit the site again. But then again, Facebook had a much, MUCH worse situation and they’re still fine.
Of course these games are not going to last forever, but every day that subs are flooded with John Oliver is an extra day for people to learn about the drama and to consider moving to another platform. For subs that were forced open, it was either this or already going back to normal.
Is Facebook really fine though? All the interesting ppl I knew stopped using it a long time ago. People just use it to message a few specific ppl they know IRL and trade shit on FB marketplace, or spam pictures of their baby nobody wants to see, but everyone knows and acknowledges how garbage it has become.
Reddit isn't going to win or lose, it already lost. It has never been profitable, has been outcompeted by Instagram and TikTok, and was already showing signs of failure. The one thing that they had going for them was their relationship with the community, and they couldn't even maintain that. At this point Reddit is a sinking ship, average people will move on to the next big thing and the power users will move to other places they can get their content seen, and Reddit may not be in the grave but they've already dug it and they are on the edge.
@LoFi-Enchilada@dopethrone@stroller If they stop and leave Reddit, Reddit Inc loses. If they continue using it normally, well they can't because mods will delete their post. If Reddit Inc replaces the mods, it still loses because who will those mods be? Probably power-hungry Nazis. It may look good in the short term because there are mods but Reddit Inc will lose in the medium-to-long term.
Getting people off of reddit and onto Fediverse is the point of those protests with John Oliver. So, they worked. Welcome! This is actually the official /r/piracy replacement!
best thing is we can finally link a bit better to the pirate sites, since we aren't bound by the higher rules of reddit anymore. Obviously, we still have to keep it somewhat low (see the link in the rules), but it's still incredibly freeing