This is just a short rant and is not meant to insult anyone already on here, or further newcomers that joined, join or will still join. Also reminder that this is based on my experience and not necessarily facts, YMMV.
Anyways, in the last few days I’ve noticed that for some reason, especially on the r/piracy sub (although other subs are of course no exception), that there has been a more positive sentiment towards spez (the CEO of Reddit) and a very negative one against the mods and the protest.
I can understand that a protest which you don’t want to take part in may be a breach of your apathy - though what we protest will sooner or later affect everyone, not just those that want to continue using 3rd party apps. I’m guessing they just don’t (want to) understand. I’m just gonna leave the following quote here do with that what thou wanteth:
“There’s something extremely pathetic about complaining about a problem that only concerns you, but wanting to pull everyone along”
On another note they’re also calling everyone who participates in the protest and or makes a comment about alternatives a “mod bootlicker”. I want to thank OtakuA* and everyone who does what they do for spreading the word, even when bombarded with downvotes which sadly and disappointingly does happen.
What really got me over my shadow to write this rant (and first post actually) though, was the following reply I got, in return for agreeing with someone and calling the people bootlickers:
“You’re shilling for a different company lmfao…pot calling the kettle black…”
I still haven’t figured out what they meant? I don’t want to call myself smart but maybe I’m not stupid enough to understand?
Anyways, I expected nothing but was still majorly disappointed with the people over at r/piracy where I thought they would be most in favor of the protest.
I hope this rant is coherent enough to understand and that some of you get what I’m saying. I’m not looking for solutions personally I just wanted to get this out. If there are grammatical errors I’m sorry English is not my first language and I also didn’t want to read over this post too often otherwise I overthink and delete without posting.
Tl;dr: Admin bootlickers call protesters & supporters “mod bootlickers”, me mad
I hope this post shows up I’m posting from kbin - I also didn’t look if there were other posts about this already because I wanted to say this asap
r/piracy users out of all? Wow, I can’t even believe that, as piracy to me is the epitome of freedom, which Reddit itself certainly isn’t.
“Mod Bootlickers”, huh? I’d call them “Spez Bootlickers” in return. Wth.
I think that’s the difference between pirates that believe in free exchange of media and information, who take a moral stance against the corporations… vs guys who just want the easiest way to see the newest marvel movie without paying, they are already going out of there comfort zone to learn to pirate at all and they don’t want any further inconvenience.
That’s what’s most likely going on, you’re right.
I don’t even bother to reply to these type of people anymore I just downvote them and get on with it because I know arguing with them is the biggest waste of time, have already done it enough (I can see the hypocrisy coming from me posting a whole rant about them but I thought that would be more worth my time).
Totally get the rant. Sometimes you just need to vent. No hypocrisy here, IMHO.