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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I disagree.

    Both sides are bad, no matter who is currently the aggressor.

    Now because there is aggression, the aggressor has an obligation to stop it, and we have an obligation to force a stop in the conflict as well. But that doesn’t make the other party less Bad in this. Both sides killed a lot of innocent people, both have inhumane ulterior motives and both are supporting further escalation. But ofc if there’s only one party doing the fighting, then that’s the party that acutely needs to be stopped.

    This distinction is very important to me, because you are not suddenly the good guy because you stopped killing civilians. You are just not actively doing war crimes which means we don’t have to intervene because of you anymore, which is at least one less reason. But you are not holy because “this year it was only 300 war crimes”.









  • Dude you want the Reddit protests to work but also that they don’t affect anyone? That’s literally the opposite of a protest. The important thing for a protest is to show how much someone depends on something to level the playing field for negotiations.

    These are the exact things that make the protest effective. You admitted it yourself: because of this action, you had to find your information somewhere else. Isn’t that the point of the protest? Driving people away from Reddit to show the admins how critical their userbase is to their success?

    I mean I get why you’re mad, but if you are pissed at spez and where Reddit is heading too, this is the wrong thing to be mad about.

    Rather be mad the Reddit holds such a monopoly on this kind of knowledge that you can’t find it almost anywhere else.







  • A bit hard. That’s very dependent on the alternative though.

    Lemmy: I tried it a few days after the Reddit debacle and I never looked back. I really want this to work but the main thing is that I can still doom scroll anyway so I got that going for me, which is nice.

    Mastodon: I didn’t use Twitter anymore but then I wanted to again. So I looked into mastodon. It’s been chaotic af. Couldn’t find ppl I wanted to follow because no recommendations and you kinda have to know who you’re looking for. Also there’s no likes, so you don’t even know which tweets were more interesting and that didn’t help (I know this is controversial, but imo these are things that will always make it hard for the average social media person). I kinda just gave up and until this gets easier I won’t try again. Don’t have the motivation nor the patience for that. Not worth it.