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Kay Ohtie, Bat-Yote!

@awooo @aires I'm angry at reddit, and at the time I supported it, but it's increasingly hard to support the deletes folks did when there's a ton of things that may not be found elsewhere like that. Like I get it, I'm being first world about it to an extent, but I feel like almost more harm was done with the backlash than reddit itself suffered. :<

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awooo :autism:​🏴‍☠️🐾⎇

@KayOhtie @aires I guess it is their right, and I don't want to see these attempts to make the internet worse go unpunished, but yeah, it sucks mostly because we don't have any other place to go right now, and search engine~~s~~ (let's not fool ourselves) are continuing their decline

We need better search engines, but we're not getting them, or at least without a paywall and a creepy owner behind it...

Odoben

@KayOhtie @awooo @aires Remember when spez said the protests will fail so they just need to sit it out? He was right and it makes me sad.

awooo :autism:​🏴‍☠️🐾⎇

@odoben @KayOhtie @aires Yeah, the scary thing is that effective resistance is basically impossible on these platforms, your account is just a remote puppet that can be taken away or forced into whatever the real owners want, and that's indeed what happened to the moderators who protested the changes

Same thing happened on Stack Overflow where they straight up reverted changes people made to their own comments in protest

If it's not that, the network effect will prevail, like in Twitter's case where it always felt like we were just moments away from the floodgates opening, but eventually a lot of (very popular) users chickened out of moving anywhere else

@odoben @KayOhtie @aires Yeah, the scary thing is that effective resistance is basically impossible on these platforms, your account is just a remote puppet that can be taken away or forced into whatever the real owners want, and that's indeed what happened to the moderators who protested the changes

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