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[-] fupuyifi@kbin.social 41 points 2 years ago

This is the heart of Reddit - total coordination of random users uniting for a common cause and message.

What’s the back story for using John Oliver? What did I miss🤔

[-] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have to agree - this is classic reddit. Spez obviously couldn't care less about namecalling.

  • The corp gets to use the CEO as a punching bag - which is pretty much his job description...

  • Redditors can feel good about upvoting a picture "sticking it to the man" while actually doing nothing - participating on a site that's still reaming them

  • Buying all the reddit awards for the post, GIVING THE COMPANY THEY'RE SUPPOSEDLY STICKING IT TO MORE MONEY. Bullshit like this pisses me off after finding out the Lemmy devs pretty much make less than minimum wage with donations

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure most awards given are free. My account has a bunch of coins on it for some reason.

[-] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 9 points 2 years ago

I thought the free awards thing stopped a while back. I'd be surprised if a lot of people still had them

[-] androogee@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

I have thousands of coins on my account. Coins used to be way more plentiful before awards got enshittified.

[-] DrLongTRL@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

People could also dump their already purchased coins into fuck spez posts to be fair. Just because they gave an award here doesn't mean they specifically purchased it for that occasion.

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Several subs had a vote and changed their rules to only allow John Oliver content. The vote was done to ensure the mods are not deciding over the desire of their user base as spez had claimed they do.

[-] maddison@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Why give money via awards to the website you’re protesting against?

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

loads of people collect them over the years for free

[-] d_bradr@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I thought you had to spend them within 24 hours

[-] athos77@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

When they had free awards, you could only give one every 24 hours.

The awards that are "paid for" using reddit coins, you can buy those any time. And some of the awards also gift the awardee coins in addition to the award. So even if you never actually have money to reddit, you could still end up with reddit coins. And what better use for them than to highlight the protests?

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't gave anyone an award, but i got a shitton of coins for only downloading and logging in with the official Reddit app 5-6 years ago.

[-] desmondjones@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I can’t wait for Oliver to talk about this on his show and spend some stupid amount of money to help the cause

[-] athos77@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Regretfully, his show is currently shut down in solidarity with the writer's strike.

[-] Singletona@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

The writers demands seem quite reasonable and I hope that this conflict is resolved.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep, and I can't think of a single time when a striking union's demands weren't reasonable. You don't strike on a whim; that is the last option for conflict resolution, and you're not getting paid for the duration of it. That said, you're going to make damn sure that your demands are reasonable and are likely to be met as soon as possible.

Strikes are also very visible, so you are going to want public opinion on your side. Thus, you're even more encouraged to head to the negotiating table in good faith. But, every time it happens, higher ups always try to paint the strikers as greedy, entitled leeches demanding a handout (almost as if they're projecting 🤔 ).

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago
[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

r/steam is about water vapour, r/wellthatsucks is vacuum cleaners only.

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

r/interestingasfuck got a whole lot more "interesting" too....

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Hahaha fantastic

[-] n0stalghia@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Personally don't pirate stuff, but gotta support folks who are leaving Reddit. So... here I am I guess?

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

It's never too late to start pirating. I'm sure plenty of folks here would be happy to hook you up.

Not to apply any pressure, mind you. If you're just here to soak in the pirate culture tourists are fine too. There's probably a gift shop, take free copies of anything you find in there.

[-] Singletona@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Eh. I'll let the younger generation have their fun. These days I'm more interested in the technical aspects than the actual content.

[-] DeadGemini@waveform.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

-qBittorrent

-TorrentGalaxy, The Pirate Bay, 1337x

-Plex

-Mullvad VPN

-Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr

Yanno, just in case you wanna get your hands dirty, here's a list of things you can Google. Listed in order of importance (imo).

[-] AppleMango@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

The one downvote is from spez.

[-] Linnce@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

That's spez? He has kind of a baby face

[-] xc2215x@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Haha. Love this.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

What are we fucking Spez for this time? Well anyways, fuck that guy

[-] Khalic@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Schadenfreude is real :)

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry, can't ignore it. Only a single d pls. Again sorry my german genes compel me to correct people.

[-] Khalic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Here we go!

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