• Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m so tired of seeing this take. And this is from someone who hasn’t opened a reddit link since July 1st.

    Yeah, I agree that we shouldn’t give them traffic. But do you think that the people like us are the ones driving that sentiment of “never forget what they stole”? Believe it or not, there exists a base of users who still browse reddit and want to see change. Those are users driving their engagement regardless of what they do. So why not spend that time protesting or sending a message?

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

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

        It’s exactly the same energy. Nothing says “this isn’t my problem so let me tell you how to solve it” like saying “so just quit!”

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      1 year ago

      Also, id get that take if this were like, a general news community, but this is literally the reddit news community. Reddit news is why we’re all subbed here right? We all have nostalgia for what reddit once fostered and I think most of us still have a glimmer of hope that it might be a decent place again