This is just a short rant and is not meant to insult anyone already on here, or further newcomers that joined, join or will still join. Also reminder that this is based on my experience and not necessarily facts, YMMV.
Anyways, in the last few days I've noticed that for some reason, especially on the r/piracy sub (although other subs are of course no exception), that there has been a more positive sentiment towards spez (the CEO of Reddit) and a very negative one against the mods and the protest.
I can understand that a protest which you don't want to take part in may be a breach of your apathy - though what we protest will sooner or later affect everyone, not just those that want to continue using 3rd party apps. I'm guessing they just don't (want to) understand. I'm just gonna leave the following quote here do with that what thou wanteth:
"There's something extremely pathetic about complaining about a problem that only concerns you, but wanting to pull everyone along"
On another note they're also calling everyone who participates in the protest and or makes a comment about alternatives a "mod bootlicker". I want to thank OtakuA* and everyone who does what they do for spreading the word, even when bombarded with downvotes which sadly and disappointingly does happen.
What really got me over my shadow to write this rant (and first post actually) though, was the following reply I got, in return for agreeing with someone and calling the people bootlickers:
"You're shilling for a different company lmfao...pot calling the kettle black..."
I still haven't figured out what they meant? I don't want to call myself smart but maybe I'm not stupid enough to understand?
Anyways, I expected nothing but was still majorly disappointed with the people over at r/piracy where I thought they would be most in favor of the protest.
I hope this rant is coherent enough to understand and that some of you get what I'm saying. I'm not looking for solutions personally I just wanted to get this out. If there are grammatical errors I'm sorry English is not my first language and I also didn't want to read over this post too often otherwise I overthink and delete without posting.
Tl;dr: Admin bootlickers call protesters & supporters "mod bootlickers", me mad
I hope this post shows up I'm posting from kbin - I also didn't look if there were other posts about this already because I wanted to say this asap
Meeh, I don't really care one way or another. As long as the info gets out and to the people, I don't care much how it got out.
But, I'm a pirate since birth. I haven't paid for anything digital in my entire life (well... CDs, yes, but only because I respect the bands and just wanted to have the originals, cuz I'm also a collector, and that was years after I alredy had pirated copies), so I'm used to finding my way around this digital playground and getting the info/data I need. This being said, I'm not really on one side or another, but I just love fucking with rich people, lol. So I decided, fuck it, let's give this thing a try. Turns out it's a lot better than I thought. Plus, quieter than reddit, not so much noise... which I kinda like to be honest, so... yeah, I'm sticking here. I do have my reddit accounts still active as well, but only because I need them, got some posts shared on the profiles which I would hate to get deleted. So yeah, I'll be here mostly, but also on reddit from time to time.
The problem is that with the heavy downvoting of the information, the people that would see the messages and be like "Oh yeah that sounds cool I might as well check it out" either won't see the messages at all ever or they'd only see the negative score and think if everyone downvotes it it must be bad.
That's also one of the things I like about this platform, is that downvotes are transparent, it shows who downvoted if you know where to look as well as how many downvotes and upvotes a post or comment has instead of the score that Reddit shows.
I also like the "quietness" that we have at the moment, content is more profound and not obliterated with upvotes or downvotes, you have to form your own opinion. Makes interacting more interesting to be honest.
I can also understand not wanting to delete the account, I haven't deleted mine either yet but mostly since it wouldn't make too much of a difference anyways with my comments rarely seeing any interaction at all due to drops in the ocean. I will probably delete it though when I stop using Reddit at all in the next month.
Keep in mind they've done some pretty underhanded things already, like demodding to force subs open. I wouldn't put it past them to manipulate rankings to favor pro-Reddit posts. I mean Spez has already shown through Apollogate there's no level too low.
I've heard the audio and read the manuscript. That never sounded like a like a joke to me. He was trying to sell/quiet the app for real, was just testing if they're willing to do this.
I would try to make $$$ out of it too, since I can see the direction in which this is going, so there's no Ill feelings there, but IMO, Christian lied, not spez. He wasn't direct, he was circling around with th expalanation, not being direct at all "bob's your uncle" 🤨, I mean WTF is that supposed to mean. Nothing was pointed out directly, it was all like "ha ha, I'm only kidding", but the fact is, if spaz said "when and where", we wouldn't be having this converstaion right now.
There's a bit more to it than just that transcript, I should have linked to the top here; https://gist.github.com/christianselig
I don't see how that correlates to the converstaion between the two of them. Christian just explains Reddit's stand on the free vs paid API.