Walking away and not looking back is actually very powerful.

I mean seriously... We don't have ANY better and more qualified candidates in our 331.9 million citizens? Really?

Thank you for this, I love that you're working to make this a better place and being all inclusive in the process. Y'all are awesome!

Thank you for this in the short term. Not gonna lie, I was a little grossed out by all the furry / anime porn / gone wild stuff that was crossing my feed when I hit all. No matter how fast I blocked the communities, I couldn't get them all. I'm not a prude person at all but I also don't come here to surf random porn.

I left Reddit because of it's toxicity and general hivemind tone that seemed to take over there in the last year or so. I want to interact with kind people, not worry about exactly where I place every single comma in my comments for fear that someone will think I'm putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. I am 100% all in with the "let's be nice" statement here, thank you for posting this.

so - as one of those people who really didn't know much about the 3rd party apps or even what the protest/blackout was, I was wishing for an alternative for quite some time now. Reddit has become an echo chamber where you're downvoted for having your own opinion, no matter how vanilla the "dissenting" opinion is. The trolliing and constant arguing gets old after awhile, and I don't think the current state of reddit is what the original intent of the platform ever was. This, for me, was why I gravitated toward Beehaw specifically. I'm not going back to Reddit. It reminds me of a playground full of bullies, itching for an argument. This platform is so much more my speed. And I feel like there are a pretty decent amount of people here who are in the same mind... for us, the alternative is welcome and Spez can wait til he retires for us to return because it's not happening.

hang on, what leaked internal email, do you know where I can find that?

As someone in the advertising industry - they most likely will just recover the revenue when people flock back after the black out. The only way they truly lose ad revenue is if people leave for a very extended amount of time. Basically - they'll have *lower *impressions (not zero, because people are still there today) in the next few days but they will recover, and it'll be seen as a "dip" but not a loss.

Lemmons

Isn't moderation an unpaid volunteer gig? I agree. He's gonna have a hard time finding a bunch of people who can /will jump at the opportunity

I'm done with Reddit til this all blows over one way or the other... I really just need somewhere to park in my day time work hours to be not so isolated (work from home) and keep up on the news and whatnot. I think Reddit things people NEED THEM so bad that they're willing to take whatever they're given. I don't NEED Reddit and am so super happy this is my new spot. Really liking it so far!

I came here from Reddit in preparation for it getting whack... ready to make a jump to something closer to how old school reddit was. I think we'll see a lot more people who are like minded coming over too.