Ultimately the super loud leftists were super annoying. I’m not saying their message or stance was good/bad or anything, I’m just saying that most folks don’t come to places like Lemmy or Reddit to talk political theory. Those lemmygrad hexbear types can’t get through a post about a bump on a log without talking about politics and social theory.
Conservatives would get the same opinion from me but they are far fewer here, so I have no notes on them.
I didn’t take any notice of which instances they were from. The people I’m thinking of didn’t talk about politics - they were shouty about other things.
If you’re not that technologically inclined, or not a developer, you’re not going to know what all the yammering about APIs are about, and how it affects your experience.
The moderators on r/Blind protesting might be all well and good, but it’s not much of a reach for someone to not see how them being impacted would affect your user experience.
Same for all the shouting about power users, apps, and moderator tools. That’s not a concern for most users, especially the ones who either already use Reddit on the computer, or just downloaded the Reddit app.
There wasn’t a good, clear, short, coherent message, nor much of a sustained, co-ordinated effort to explain the issue, not what it would mean for users that aren’t that technologically inclined, or engaged.
Ultimately the super loud leftists were super annoying. I’m not saying their message or stance was good/bad or anything, I’m just saying that most folks don’t come to places like Lemmy or Reddit to talk political theory. Those lemmygrad hexbear types can’t get through a post about a bump on a log without talking about politics and social theory.
Conservatives would get the same opinion from me but they are far fewer here, so I have no notes on them.
For what’s it worth, I’m glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn’t even give lemmy a chance.
I didn’t take any notice of which instances they were from. The people I’m thinking of didn’t talk about politics - they were shouty about other things.
It was also loud without much good communication.
If you’re not that technologically inclined, or not a developer, you’re not going to know what all the yammering about APIs are about, and how it affects your experience.
The moderators on r/Blind protesting might be all well and good, but it’s not much of a reach for someone to not see how them being impacted would affect your user experience.
Same for all the shouting about power users, apps, and moderator tools. That’s not a concern for most users, especially the ones who either already use Reddit on the computer, or just downloaded the Reddit app.
There wasn’t a good, clear, short, coherent message, nor much of a sustained, co-ordinated effort to explain the issue, not what it would mean for users that aren’t that technologically inclined, or engaged.
It basically ran into the whole average familiarity issue.