r/pics, gifs, among others are voting on whether to return to normal operation. As lots of people supporting the black out aren’t using Reddit at the moment the voting is currently going in favour of returning to normal
This has been consensus across most of Reddit. Most people don’t care, and won’t care. So, those of us that do just need to be here making the best of it and not worrying about Reddit. Once there is comparable amounts of content in the Fediverse, people will end up joining for the same reason they joined Reddit.
I initially signed up for Reddit after I kept getting sent links to Reddit. It was just a place that had information I was interested in.
Right now, telling people to join because it will eventually be good and it’s ethically good doesn’t work because there’s not much here and most people are fine using commercial software.
However once there is a wealth of information here, say someone publishes a very good guide for self-hosting and you have a friend that wants to self-host a Plex server, you link them to a lemmy or kbin guide. They will naturally be compelled to join and ask questions if they have them.
It takes time. Just let those of us that are ideologically driven create content good enough that everyone else ends up coming for their own reasons.
Huh. I’ve come to the opposite conclusion. At least in most bigger subs, such as r/pics, I’ve seen the overwhelming majority voting for blackout or restricted posting. This particular poll at r/pics has by now finished and it was a landslide victory for sexy John Oliver.
Yeah, most people probably scroll past any blackout related post as it isn’t interesting to them. I don’t honestly believe the protests will come to much of an end. Mods will probably end up being replaced by someone worse.
I would love to see some of these subreddits take a more offensive stance, allowing poor quality posting to show how much work they put into there modding and how bad content can ruin a sub.
Unfortunately, I don’t see the voters letting that happen in this poll.
I will say…the John Oliver options are highly awarded! 😁
The poll has closed:
Voting has now closed.
Our final tally is as follows:
Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes
Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes
The overwhelming majority voted for sexy John Oliver. That’s good.
Well, I guess it’s time to get posting
Noticed this in a few of the subs I’m still in over there. One took a vote, where they even acknowledged that most voting wanted to continue the blackout in some form (1 week or indef) but decided to reopen instead.
And in that same thread when people were talking about it, there was whining about the mods being unilaterally able to make decisions about ‘their’ content and community (as if reddit isn’t the main villain here). No complaints now, naturally.
I fear that nothing will change after all. There are too many users who sadly don’t give a shit. They just want their stuff to work right now and don’t think about the broader picture.
Reddit will be fine after this. We cannot stop it. We are probably not enough.
ROM?
I like this idea, and went back to upvote it. Steve’s narrative so far has been to deride the protesting moderators as “not wanting to moderate”. This makes it clear that the mods want to moderate, but Steve is taking away the tools they need. Their alternative to opening is even more strict moderation, after all.
Interesting that they made it a upvote poll and not a Reddit poll. Are they throwing a bone to those of us still using third-party apps until they die? Or is it possible the mods have some tools to detect upvote manipulation that they wouldn’t have if it were a poll?
Look at what r/science did also. They announced they would open next week, but directly tied their opening with the mod tool Improvement announcement that was recently announced, and indicated that they would close up again if Reddit doesn’t deliver on schedule.
Tying their opening to commitments made to them is smart.
