hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

    • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Seems on brand after the CEO doubled down on falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail, even though the Apollo dev posted the recordings proving otherwise.

      • jimmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        It at least seems like an attempt to push an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

      • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

        To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

          • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            was hovering over the link like “is this going to be a rick roll or something?”

            so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

            a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this “first post” joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about “last post” if you are a person who has “last post” powers.

    • mike@s.jape.workEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      i like the part where he implies that redditors are so deranged they will physically assault his employees.