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I"M DEAD. i'm begging someone will please make this into one of those trashy tiktoks with the rocket league gameplay 😭😭
Spoilers if you haven't yet read Solitaire by Alice Oseman!
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Lucas Ryan's Reddit be like: "AITA? When I (now 17 M) was 11, I had a crush on my childhood best friend (now 16 F). A couple of months ago, I got shown around her school and I saw her in a computer room, doing her lessons. I thought she looked a bit sad. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and I'm attending this school. I have been trying to pick up our friendship again, but she seems different and more serious than she did over five years ago. So, to cheer her up, I started this blog. At first, we did harmless little pranks like illegally hacking the school's devices and locking people in rooms, but soon, it escalated to seriously injuring and assaulting people with the use of mob mentality, arson, fireworks, illegal attacks, terrorism and more. My childhood best friend got injured during one of these pranks. Then, as a big finale, we burnt down the school, and this almost killed my childhood best friend and her boyfriend (18 M). My childhood best friend also tried to kill herself, and these pranks were a major factor as to why. But, it was only because I had a crush on her, and she looked a bit sad. Oh, and afterwards, I hooked up with her best friend because I realised I didn't even have a crush on her anymore. So, please tell me... AITA?"
So like, the Reddit strike going on right now, yeah? I've been seeing a lot of people comment on how they appreciate the protest and then go on to say that this has the notable downside of them constantly looking up questions and not being able to easily find the answers because all of the easily-findable answers are exclusively on Reddit. I am not sure if most of the people making this observation are within the line of thought of "man, maybe this protest isn't such a good idea after all" or "man, it really sucks that we've let the internet get so consolidated," and I'm really hoping its the latter.
Like, all of this? This right here? Reddit making a shitty, anti-consumer grab for money and control over how people are allowed to access the information on their servers, and the website going dark in protest causing tons of people to not be able to access important information? This is exactly what people mean when they say that it's bad that the internet has shrunk down so much and is mostly comprised of, like, 10 websites. It's a fucking problem that one company making one bad decision and causing their website to crash and burn can jeopardize so much of humanity's cumulative information.
This two-day glimpse into the internet without Reddit is the warning shot. Imagine what will happen if Reddit actually goes down for good for one reason or another one day. Imagine what will happen if/when Discord or Fandom bites the dust, or gets rendered practically-unusable without paying an ever-increasing premium because they're owned by blood-sucking corporate leeches.
Another big thing is Twitter clamping down really hard on your ability to DM people if you don't have Twitter Blue. If this goes through, it'll put a ton of artists and sex workers who rely on Twitter DMs for their business operation into a shitty situation. Now, obviously, it's not gonna be the end of the world for them, but once again, it feels like a warning shot to me. Twitter is a sinking ship, and unless something changes and it starts to course-correct, I worry that it'll go under and all of the creators who rely on it will suddenly be in an extremely precarious situation.
These are the sorts of things that we, as the users of the internet, need to seriously think about as time goes on, and if we don't find an adequate answer sooner, we're going to pay for it later. I still hold that the best solution is to start making and using more individual, niche websites. Things like Twitter, Reddit, Discord, etc. have their place, of course, but I seriously think a lot was lost through the death of things like individual forums and the existence of many different wiki-hosting sites.
We need a concerted effort, not just on the side of larger creators, but on the users themselves, to stop exclusively using these larger websites and support the creation and growth of smaller, more niche websites, and prevent a catastrophe before it actually happens. I simply hope that people with larger platforms than my own pick up on all this and start talking about it and swaying people to act sooner rather than later. I know it's possible to correct the problem of the mysteriously tiny internet before a modern Library of Alexandria moment happens, I just don't know if that correction will actually happen in time.
Reddit management threatening note to protesting moderators:
If I were a pro-protest subreddit member with sneaky intentions, here's what I would do:
I would get together with some other members and, after privately contacting the existing mod team to make sure they are on board, we would apply to be moderators. Then we would use this generous offer to become senior moderators and displace the protesting moderators like the scabs we are. Then we would reopen the sub.
Then, after a few hours to allow management to enjoy their victory, we would close it again.
After a couple of days, another band of clean-cut Company MenTM would step up and displace us. And then they would do it again.
I have faith in Redditors. They are the most thrawn of social media users. They can win this fight.
My favorite current reddit protest. r/pics is only allowing submissions of John Oliver.
I promise I'm not here from twitter or reddit I just succumbed
I have to laugh at the two dunderheads on reddit who made a separate server called "snapewasanincel." I think they forgot about Instagram and Twitter being perfect niches for them. Bonus: They are the sole commenters on the others post in that sub. The jokes truly write themselves.
The HP reddit is a place where there’s only one channel and it shows a perpetual boxing fight between Snape fans and Marauder fans.