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1 year agoIf they think people will left reddit in droves and reddit will shutdown during the blackout, yeah they are wrong. The blackout is about awareness, and during this short 48 hours, we already discovered swathes upon swathes of reddit alternatives, some are bigger than other, some are livelier than other, all within their communities yet federating each other, far from whateverthefuck spez is doing. And for that, the blackout is successful.
Lemmy or Kbin might be small, but hey, at least we can quite certain that we are human contributors, not bots.
He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, “tweet, to tweet, tweeting”.
And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it’s again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that’s the silicon valley trend isn’t it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.