hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

    • @Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      152 years ago

      i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

      • Pigeon
        link
        fedilink
        English
        132 years ago

        Seems on brand after the CEO doubled down on falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail, even though the Apollo dev posted the recordings proving otherwise.

      • crank
        link
        fedilink
        English
        62 years ago

        I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

        To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

          • crank
            link
            fedilink
            English
            22 years ago

            was hovering over the link like “is this going to be a rick roll or something?”

            so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

            a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this “first post” joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about “last post” if you are a person who has “last post” powers.

      • @jimmy@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        52 years ago

        It at least seems like an attempt to push an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

    • @mike@s.jape.work
      link
      fedilink
      English
      42 years ago

      i like the part where he implies that redditors are so deranged they will physically assault his employees.