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Reddit has removed any mention of the protest from the front page (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Rick@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] poke@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I went through that thread before everything went dark, the sentiment in there was very anti-protest and pro-reddit. I'm pretty sure I saw an upvoted comment saying bad things about the Apollo dev.

I couldn't tell if people were genuine or if there was some manipulation going on in the thread by admins or otherwise.

I hope things have turned around in there, but knowing the hivemind effect it probably hasn't.

[-] AnonTwo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair, if people are properly protesting, the only people who would be checking reddit to respond to that thread are

People who don't know
People who didn't agree with it

I wouldn't even know the thread exists because I haven't had reddit open on any tabs.

edit: will say there could be exceptions to that, but that's just the general idea

[-] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, you can never underestimate just what PoSs people can be. A lot of them will do mental gymnastics to blame the victims. Before I left I'd already encountered people blaming the mods engaging in the blackouts for doing it "just over money".