this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I think the funniest thing in all of this is how so incredibly easy it took for Reddit to swing into the support of these profit-driven and greedy decisions simply because it slightly inconvenienced them for a couple days. Like the second they're faced with something that could disrupt their daily content feed they just completely bend over backwards
I don't expect everyone to be perfect, I'm certainly not, but at least have the guts to admit there's a problem. The fact that all these users perform Olympic gold-level mental gymnastics to somehow justify the blackout is not only something that won't help at all, but the people doing it are wasting time and are idiotic is...well actually that's pretty on point for the site
Maybe all of those who supported the blackouts were true to their word and left and only those against remain?
I honestly think something like that happened. It wouldn't even need to be all. Of just half left the other half wouldn't have the numbers to keep from being down voted out of the conversation.
I think some of it is that and probably some brigading with bots.