Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 hours ago
The most effective protests against your capitalist overlords are to strike or boycott.
Everything else is just begging.
Same. Imgur had a bad reputation for years but I didn’t know why. 404 explains that it has the same fate as reddit. Nothing will change then. Users will complain a lot but not move to another site.
To keep with the reddit comparison, there were a lot of bad events that should have triggered a massive migration, but it didn’t happen. People stayed on reddit and they still complain without doing anything about it.
But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!
I had to make the life-threatening choice between Gmail, Hotmail, and Proton, I almost died!
Tbf that's a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.
And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts... r-r-right?!).
I don't think the "choosing a server" thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn't be intimidated by picking
Yeah, calling this a “revolt” is absurd.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
Ehh… There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.
At least these people are wasting imgur resources and removing value by cluttering up the site. If they’d keep it up and actually battle the shitlords, it’d be better than a bitchboi boycott.