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Did the reddit hivemind do a 180 or are the people left behind just the people who don't care. (kbin.social)

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

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Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don't mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck, they really defederated from at least lemmy.world. Why? Are they trying to kill the platform? Lots of the bigger tech communities were over there, now I'm bummed out. Low-key hope this kills their instance or restricts new users joining over there because I don't want to have to make another account over there just to view the three communities I liked, and no one else should have to either, having a couple of mods silo themselves off from the rest of the network defeats the entire purpose of the fediverse.

Edit: read through the beehaw mods post explaining why they did it. I still vehemently disagree, but I understand why now, and it was premature to say I hope their instance dies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

defeats the entire purpose of the fediverse.

I dunno, this seems like really backward thinking to me.

It only "defeats" the point of the fediverse if the point of the fediverse is to be replacement-Reddit. The fediverse is unique from other such platforms in that it has the ability for instances to defederate. If anything, being able to defederate is the point of the Fediverse. If a bigger instance starts to cannibalise a smaller instance's communities and cultures, they only have a defense at all because of federalisation.