Seriously, out of any community how does /r/Piracy have so many people who have such a hate-boner for new thing Lemmy? Please tell me I’m not the only one aghast by this right now.
Seriously, out of any community how does /r/Piracy have so many people who have such a hate-boner for new thing Lemmy? Please tell me I’m not the only one aghast by this right now.
Reddit wants to IPO so the boys club at the top of the company can pull the golden parachute rip cords and turn their shares into cash.
They own a tech company. They have a PR team. Of course they are astroturfing. The narrative went from
“Fuck you, don’t charge something unreasonable for the API”
to
“Look at these evil moderators remember /r/nowork? they’re all losers who just want power this blackout is dumb reddit is great I e always used the all”
Really fucking quickly. Then the community was divided, and the narrative bungled.
The good news is that they’re left with the shitheads who fell in line and helped their disinformation campaign, and we’re left with a better cohort to build a better foundation.
The bad news is this will inevitably fail as well.