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Do your part by not getting baited into reddit my friend. You are providing revenue to them by doing so.
Dude I know, it's like the 100th comment like this: I get it.
But stop being so invested in what you think is true and consider this: there are still a lot of people protesting reddit on reddit because they want to stay there and they don't like the direction it is going.
My grandfather used to say "we didn't beat the fascists by ignoring them: that's how they got the power in the first place". And while I'm a firm believer that boycotting is the best way of dealing with this sort of problems, I believe that sometime it's also efficient to scream "fuck you" to somebody's face.
Like 90% boycotting and 10% "fuck you" seems a good ratio.
[Gets down from the soap box]
Only (lol) difference is the Nazis were talking something finite (land, resources, freedom).
Reddit is ephemeral, if no one went there it wouldn't "hurt" anyone
Although comparing Reddit to fascists is ridiculous, your argument isn't quite right, either.
Reddit IS taking something very finite: people. There's only so many people in the world using this type of social media, and an overwhelming majority of them stick to one platform.
If Reddit just went belly up, Lemmy would have increased traffic.