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Do it. Show your true colors, Reddit.

I’m starting to think it’s propaganda sponsored by reddit, hoping to scare people out of leaving.

If so, that would be rich. Reddit has been drawing fire for actively “un-deleting” content.

Exactly. We can’t trust them to act in good faith.

To me, the argument for accepting Meta into the Fediverse goes beyond gain and loss. If you run an Internet service, you have a moral obligation to make a good faith attempt to interoperate with anyone using the protocol as intended.

But that’s the thing: We don’t trust that Meta will be using the protocol “as intended”.

Battle’s not over until the third party apps go offline. That’s when the real damage is bound to start.

So did RIF.

Same here. Cancelled the day the blackout started as sort of a personal statement. Not that I expect that statement to be heard by anyone.

CEO Steve Huffman told me in an interview last week, “90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit?”

It’s called a “loss leader,” Steve.

Dude’s sounding like the kind of guy that cuts IT, security, and janitorial because they don’t bring in revenue. But then, he did say he’s following the Musk model. Which is, basically, that.

“I learned it from you, Spez! I learned it from you!”

Whether or not they actually used the office, they still owed rent, did they not?

Yeah, basically a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy…

When the “vocal minority” are the ones providing quality content and weeding out the crap (i.e. power users and mods), it will take its toll. That minority is critical for making the whole thing work.

Yeah, the “Manson Family”. The murders he is best known for (Sharon Tate and co.) were actually performed by his followers. He was convicted on the basis of conspiracy. Though apparently he was directly involved in a couple other murders as well.

Anyway, supposedly the Manson Family had this idea about a major race war (predicted by The Beatles’ White Album, of all things). They expected to wait out the war and then emerge and rule the ashes. Though Manson himself denied that scenario he was following, I think some of his followers supported it.

Isn’t that what Charles Manson thought about the supposed race war?

That’s why the blackout really needs to be indefinite.

Ridiculous that this has gone under the radar.