hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    i want to call complete BS on them making it out like the Redditors protesting would physically assault the staff. Guess that’s probably a reasonable thing now though. People are whacked in the head.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Seems on brand after the CEO doubled down on falsely accusing the Apollo dev of blackmail, even though the Apollo dev posted the recordings proving otherwise.

    • jimmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It at least seems like an attempt to push an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

    • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I thought that was quite an escalation also. But maybe their health & safety committee reccomended it. Probably just trying to make the workers feel embattled and unsafe so they would avoid engaging with the issues and stay to reddits side. Its a PUA kind of doublespeak; spez is the one actually making the threat. But in a way it seems to come from us.

      To be a fly on the wall at the water cooler. Please reddit workers, leak a zoom call.

      • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well in a world where people will attack a fast food worker for their order being wrong, it’s probably prudent to make sure the employees you are responsible for are protected.

        • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          was hovering over the link like “is this going to be a rick roll or something?”

          so I click it and YES this is literally what I was imagining. not the rick roll, the previous comment. fucking brilliant. in the comments it says it is the last post to /r/videos

          a lot of people mentioning ./ and digg here. on ./ there was this “first post” joke. it was very boring even at that time IMHO. but now is the moment to be thinking about “last post” if you are a person who has “last post” powers.