lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it’s impotent rage over a minor decision bc it’s Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually

Really something seeing the cynical reaction this has gotten on Twitter

“It won’t accomplish anything, do they not realize the admins can just ban them and get new mods, lol Reddit” Your response to your site’s billionaire owner introducing the exact same policies was to make sarcastic tweets and link your Mastodon Spoutible Bluesky, what right do you have to dunk on another userbase actually Doing Things.

Especially wild for a demographic that’s supposedly so pro-labor to go “what’s the point of a strike, they can just get rid of everyone and find someone new” That’s. I know you’ve retweeted enough Scabby the Rat memes to understand what’s wrong with this

It’s bizarre how Reddit has this eternal reputation as only populated by unhinged incel trolls to the point where tons of coverage of this (and reblogs of this post!) start “I hate Reddit, but…” or “Reddit users should touch grass lol but…”

Reddit…is one of the most normal spaces still left on the internet? The way it’s split into communities means there’s a wide range of people on Reddit, maybe more than any other social media platform the idea that there’s a specific stereotype of the Average Redditor is unfounded.

Meanwhile Twitter is a site run by a guy like that for guys like that & is where all the far-right weirdos with actual power and resources go to post and it’s never, ever received the same reputation, which?