• zach@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are people really that angry? I mean I know we live in a crazy world, but this seems a bit much.

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      1 year ago

      No, this loser has a persecution fetish, nothing more.

      It feeds his narcissism to think people care that much offline.

      • CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org
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        Okay let’s not kid ourselves. I know reddit is quiet right now but the entire website is angry at them. Their inbox is likely full of death threats. People are searching for their employee information.

        I get that it’s fun to hate on spez and all but people have hunted employees down for less before. So yeah, while this is a justified protest and I dislike spez, we should all want to keep reddit employees safe right now. Most of them aren’t the problem.

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          It’s hard to wrap my head around the idea of sending death threats, people walking around with so much hate filled up that they lash out at the most detrimental things.

          It’s a corporate decision, protests (subreddits going dark) and constructive critiscm from the userbase is the only way to make the voice heard.

          I’m happy that another platform (Lemmy) existed which is more suitable and designed like the old.reddit.com layout to migrate to. Otherwise this ordeal would really suck.

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      No, I don’t think so. This is coming from the same guy who claimed that the Apollo dev tried to extort him for $10 million and threatened him, when the Apollo Dev had the phone call recorded and proved that he only offered to sell the company.
      He’s feeling threatened and trying to make the users participating in the blackout look bad.

    • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
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      No it’s just the common tactic from companies when there isn’t a good reception to one of their decisions. Then they just cherry pick some comments from Twitter or whatever and set the stage.

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      All it takes is one crazy guy. If you think about the size of reddit it makes sense that there is at least one who is willing to harm others

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        The incel terrorists in Canada were both on Reddit, iirc. There are some incredibly fringe communities on Reddit. And Lemmy, for that matter.

        So, yeah. Agreed. If 1 in a million is violent, that’s enough people for someone to get hurt.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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      I can’t say I’d assault someone wearing reddit swag, but I’d probably cross the street…