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Anyone else a little disappointed how the blackout is going? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean don't get me wrong, its cool a lot of subs have and still are participating in the blackout, but I think it wouldve been better to link a new home for the subreddits participating somewhere in the private message. Show spez, hey if you dont change, we aren't going to use your site (or use it less).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think mods don't want to lose the subreddits they've built up. It's hard to onboard users into the fediverse, and migrating would mean those communities take a big hit. Perhaps it's hard for the mods to onboard with lemmy too? But I agree that everything that protest did was ultimately toothless. Now reddit is just removing mods and installing their own pro-reddit mods.

It's all kind of unfortunate. Reddit controls a massive, mature set of communities that are ultimately very convenient and easy to access. Lemmy, in comparison, is a little tricky to get started with. That said, I love the smaller communities with less trolls, no ads, and no bots. I plan to heavily reduce my reddit usage and hopefully transition more and more to lemmy.