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[-] fupuyifi@kbin.social 76 points 2 years ago

This is the heart of Reddit - total coordination of random users uniting for a common cause and message.

What’s the back story for using John Oliver? What did I miss🤔

[-] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 80 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have to agree - this is classic reddit. Spez obviously couldn't care less about namecalling.

  • The corp gets to use the CEO as a punching bag - which is pretty much his job description...

  • Redditors can feel good about upvoting a picture "sticking it to the man" while actually doing nothing - participating on a site that's still reaming them

  • Buying all the reddit awards for the post, GIVING THE COMPANY THEY'RE SUPPOSEDLY STICKING IT TO MORE MONEY. Bullshit like this pisses me off after finding out the Lemmy devs pretty much make less than minimum wage with donations

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure most awards given are free. My account has a bunch of coins on it for some reason.

[-] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 13 points 2 years ago

I thought the free awards thing stopped a while back. I'd be surprised if a lot of people still had them

[-] androogee@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

I have thousands of coins on my account. Coins used to be way more plentiful before awards got enshittified.

[-] DrLongTRL@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

People could also dump their already purchased coins into fuck spez posts to be fair. Just because they gave an award here doesn't mean they specifically purchased it for that occasion.

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[-] IsThisLemmyOpen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago

I think John Oliver is just very memeable

[-] CoderKat@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

It helps that he's a great person.

Plus, he's reacted to people using his image in unusual ways before. He has an absolutely hilarious episode where he responds to someone mass generating AI created art of him in love with a cabbage. He noted the AI did a poor job, presumably through lack of adequate training data, so he married a cabbage in camera to help provide said training data!

[-] claymedia@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Also, he might run it on his show, which adds fuel to the Reddit bonfire.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Sadly, his show is currently off the air due to the writer's strike. Hope it's not so long that this isn't ancient history by the time he's back.

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Janice in Accounting don't give a fuck

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Several subs had a vote and changed their rules to only allow John Oliver content. The vote was done to ensure the mods are not deciding over the desire of their user base as spez had claimed they do.

[-] maddison@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago

Why give money via awards to the website you’re protesting against?

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

loads of people collect them over the years for free

[-] d_bradr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I thought you had to spend them within 24 hours

[-] athos77@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

When they had free awards, you could only give one every 24 hours.

The awards that are "paid for" using reddit coins, you can buy those any time. And some of the awards also gift the awardee coins in addition to the award. So even if you never actually have money to reddit, you could still end up with reddit coins. And what better use for them than to highlight the protests?

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't gave anyone an award, but i got a shitton of coins for only downloading and logging in with the official Reddit app 5-6 years ago.

[-] desmondjones@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

I can’t wait for Oliver to talk about this on his show and spend some stupid amount of money to help the cause

[-] athos77@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago

Regretfully, his show is currently shut down in solidarity with the writer's strike.

[-] Singletona@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago

The writers demands seem quite reasonable and I hope that this conflict is resolved.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep, and I can't think of a single time when a striking union's demands weren't reasonable. You don't strike on a whim; that is the last option for conflict resolution, and you're not getting paid for the duration of it. That said, you're going to make damn sure that your demands are reasonable and are likely to be met as soon as possible.

Strikes are also very visible, so you are going to want public opinion on your side. Thus, you're even more encouraged to head to the negotiating table in good faith. But, every time it happens, higher ups always try to paint the strikers as greedy, entitled leeches demanding a handout (almost as if they're projecting 🤔 ).

Don't the union leaders make money even during strikes?

[-] Zpiritual@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Doesn't US unions have money set aside for strikes so that they can support their members if there is a strike?

Don't know. Probably changes union to union

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not more than the union members

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 2 years ago

You need to remember that even though the ceos aren't angels, that doesn't mean everyone else is

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

If you believe that only angels are on your side, you probably are a Jehova's Witness.

I believe that every side has it's pieces of shit, some just less shitty than others

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Then what's your point? Unions are bad because there are some suboptimal people involved with it?

I'm saying people in unions can be shitty

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Well, anyone can be shitty, so what does that say about the unions?

just saying they aren't good by default

anyone can be shitty

I agree

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

They are not in the business of being good. They are in the business of representing workers and fighting for their rights. Them being good by default or not doesn't matter. The only good or bad that matters here is wheter they are representing workers well or not.

If you look at the start of this thread I was saying that they don't always represent workers well because the union leaders make money during strikes

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 26 points 2 years ago
[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago

r/steam is about water vapour, r/wellthatsucks is vacuum cleaners only.

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Hahaha fantastic

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

r/interestingasfuck got a whole lot more "interesting" too....

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[-] n0stalghia@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Personally don't pirate stuff, but gotta support folks who are leaving Reddit. So... here I am I guess?

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

It's never too late to start pirating. I'm sure plenty of folks here would be happy to hook you up.

Not to apply any pressure, mind you. If you're just here to soak in the pirate culture tourists are fine too. There's probably a gift shop, take free copies of anything you find in there.

[-] Singletona@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Eh. I'll let the younger generation have their fun. These days I'm more interested in the technical aspects than the actual content.

[-] DeadGemini@waveform.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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Yanno, just in case you wanna get your hands dirty, here's a list of things you can Google. Listed in order of importance (imo).

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[-] Khalic@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Schadenfreude is real :)

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry, can't ignore it. Only a single d pls. Again sorry my german genes compel me to correct people.

[-] Khalic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Here we go!

[-] AppleMango@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

The one downvote is from spez.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

What are we fucking Spez for this time? Well anyways, fuck that guy

[-] Linnce@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

That's spez? He has kind of a baby face

[-] xc2215x@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Haha. Love this.

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