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Disconcerting responses on Reddit over blackout
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you gotta remember that the constant consumption of media is similar in many respects to addiction - people need their media back, preferably in an easy to swallow pill. the vast majority of the reddit userbase is unwilling to search for other methods/platforms to satiate that desire.
I guess i didn’t think it would be this bad. Like in one of my favorite subs, some of the user base is turning on the moderators, who have been excellent and have developed the community from nothing. It’s just unbelievable to see some of them turn that quickly.
It doesn't need to be this bad. People are inherently capable of ugly, self-destructive behaviors like this.
But it's ultimately a reaction to an environment which is profoundly inhumane. Although these people are physically unharmed, they have been mentally disfigured by the mechanical claws of corporations, manipulating their needs and desires in order to extract wealth. They are not themselves. And thus I pity them, because I have also done ugly things as a result of pressures applied to me by our resident corporate overlords. They know not what they do.
Some people are actually just assholes though. But not that many. Most are being led by the mob rn.
yeah. not much can be done about it - gotta get the community moved to a new platform - this one, or others.