Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

I'm sure many will go back to Reddit but some wont. I for one will be staying on Lemmy as I've found it a breath of fresh air.

Am I the only one bothered by him referring to people as "Snoos"? It's so cringy.

You know you're doing the right thing when you have to instruct your employees not to wear your brand to avoid confrontation.

This whole statement strikes me as tone-deaf. They want to "ship" the product, but the product is just removing accessibility. It literally makes the platform worse.

Not going back to reddit. I'll manage without it.

The reddit blackout was as effective as turning off the lights at night.

Well, it's a new day now and the users will be back - Just like they promised. 🐕

Wherever Aaron is, I hope he can't see this.

this too shall pass

I believe there's going to be a moderator exodus. The flippancy with which Steve has handled this, and how he responded here, is going to stick in the craws of their enormous unpaid workforce. These are the people who have been there a decade plus, have seen the ebbs and flows, and are probably no longer willing to be unpaid servants to their clearly demonstrated monetary interests (at the expense of its users [product]). This was a turning point. They have way bigger problems to address than a 48 hour boycott.

I do miss the niche communities and educational ones on Reddit, but Lemmy is great so far.

The Meta Twitter-clone is allegedly going to have ActivityPub connectivity. That may be just the tip of the iceberg.

My notes:

• As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
• I hate when companies refer to their employees with some "cute" nickname, like "Snoos"
• He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?

"We absolutely must ship what we said we would."

Oh wow he's actually scared

That little quip at the end implying that they could be targeted in public over this, with the intention to have journalists write as if we are flying off the handle.

This isn't Rick & Morty's szechuan sauce crowd, these are the moderators and content creators of the website. We are peacefully protesting his poor conduct.

The worst that's happened is that he's had some memes made about him and himself alone.

"be mindful of wearing Reddit gear"??? this doesn't feel like this was said in good faith at ALL.