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
They're not even contrarian they're just ignorant and they love it. You can present them facts all day long and they just never learn or at least try to understand. I didn't even bother replying to the people that replied to me on that comment thread I mentioned because it's just a waste of time.
Second point is true for the most part most people that would leave of course have already left either abstaining from social media (or at least Reddit) or coming over here.
I will never understand the people that support what Reddit does though I actually do not see the downside to protesting for the greater good aside of not being able to chow down on repost fodder for a while until Reddit gets their act together. They're actively hurting themselves, I'm very sure that the loss of 3rd party apps sooner or later will have an effect on even the people that dare use the official app (If Reddit has a monopoly of Reddit apps why should they waste their resources improving that app).
I'm probably one of the minority that uses a browser on PC. I think the majority use mobile. When their mobile app suddenly stops working end of the month, they'll be left in the breeze. If they relent to the Reddit app they'll be in for a disappointment. I expect another surge of sign-ups here at that point. There's no sign of any reprieve from Reddit, Spez is going full Nazi on this thing.
I have the same sentiment. Some people don't want to think, they want to pick a side, get angry and rant or attack anyone that goes against their 'side'.