penguin @ penguin @sh.itjust.works

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Are you saying no protest has ever worked to affect change?

Overly simplistic take.

Protest ≠ boycott.

Hoping for change vs just giving up.

So why are you participating in a reddit community on lemmy then?

It's such an oversimplification, it's insane. "YoUrE sTiLl uSiNg ReDdIT"

I wonder if people with that same sentiment go to picketing protestors and yell at them, "Just quit!!"

As if the idea of trying to promote change rather than immediately giving up and moving on is anathema to them.

I never stopped using Firefox

I'm interested to know which accounts to follow for lemmy news. Seems like a natural place to go when having trouble connecting like I did with fmhy before and shit just works recently.

This one of my all-time favourite movies

I was on fmhy, that died so I went to shit just works and then that went down for quite a bit. I'm glad it came back before I found yet another instance to try.

It's a pickup truck. Often drive by assholes who like them but don't need them

I was referring to your original point being short term thinking.

That wasn't my point. But, it's also annoying when the same neighbours make tons of noise nonstop.

Long term vs short term thinking.

Short term it makes no difference.

But long term it could. People might get annoyed by the lack of content other than protesting and check reddit less. It also keeps the conversation on alternatives like lemmy here.

Also, if reddit believes that the community has genuinely turned against them and will ruin everything on purpose, they might rethink their actions (obviously unlikely).

Sometimes people just like to flip tables out of frustration even if it won't accomplish much. A lot of angry redditors just want to burn it all down and I hope they succeed.

As an extreme example, if /r/place was truly covered with "fuck spez" 100%, would that be an enjoyable thing for people who don't care about what's going on? They'd probably get mad and leave. Which would hurt reddit.

It also costs reddit extra money to deal with all of this.

It's similar to workers protesting instead of just quitting. There's a point to protesting and not everything is solved with a simple boycott.

When digg was dying, many people still used digg, but just to point others to reddit. In hindsight, would you say that it didn't matter since they were still using digg?

I've found myself taking my Steam Deck into the washroom instead of using reddit in there. Play a game for 10 minutes instead of doom scrolling.

It sucks to hear when you're truly down. Feels like the pain will last forever. But it truly does start to fade after a while and continues to do so as time marches on.

I've been through excruciating heartbreak a decade or so ago and it's just "meh" now.

Or they were just messing with people. Assuming some who do have sex would read it and think it's about the.

I've also seen, "We can hear you arguing"

I've used a similar one before.

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Continued protests could drive other users away. If they think the content sucks or is annoying, they'll check the site less and that'll affect reddit.