This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.

When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.

If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.

That’s gotta be bots influencing those votes, right? Like damn

Lol, gone full time Lemmy now. I do not miss Reddit! Let them have the Reddit they want. The corpo Reddit under spez, the kind of guy who doesn’t care about the user, just the bags of money he sleeps on at night.

“This thing does not affect me directly, so clearly its everyone else who is overreacting.”

Lol I’m sorry but these people are idiots. Who shills for rich corporations and lives a happy life?

These type of people can stay on Reddit for all I care. Just like how all the racist conspiracy boomers stayed on Facebook and similar things happen with Twitter right now as well.

I probably wouldn’t trust any vote counts on Reddit about this subject.

I’m just glad this type of people will remain on reddit, don’t try to convince them to come here lol. Let them stay in that shitty place, it’s perfect for shitty people

Not surprised. It’s like going to Facebook and spreading information about how vaccines save lives. You will be downvoted to hell lol.

Any decent person has already left Reddit or still there observing the shitshow. Those who tries to comment (and defend Reddit) are literally the remaining idiots. They probably also have Facebook and spend another 50% time there arguing about “Biden bad Trump good”.

Brands and corporations provide consumers with something they want and in return the consumers give the brand total loyalty and devotion. It doesn’t matter if the brand engages in anticompetitive practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand engages in predatory practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand is actively harming the consumer, so long as the consumer is being provided with something they desire. It’s gotten so bad that many brands have a cult like following.

Let the bootlickers stay behind. Let them delight in the milquetoast conservative snore-fest of mediocrity that waits them. Let them turn Reddit into Quora. Fuck 'em all.

Its understandable that (some) people have this view, they just want to enjoy the content they are used to.
But what I think they are missing is that there are a lot of people that put in a lot of effort in making free content to everyone else, and when a large group of the contributors are upset then this user’s “free content” gets worse.
As a user you just have to accept that everyone will not have the same view as you and move on to another place where you can look at funny pictures or whatever.

The sad reality is most normal people are like this…

This is actually good for the internet as a whole. The only people left on reddit are going to be scum. It will be like Australia when Britain used to send its worst criminals there lol. Everyone besides them is leaving reddit to make the same communities elsewhere without these types of people ruining the mood.

Reddit has become so toxic over the last couple of years, I have yet to see that level of toxicity on these other sites even with the great migration, but maybe I haven’t been around long enough.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.