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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!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. That was the point I became what he calls a ”whiny “ person and deleted my account.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He wasn't content on slandering the Apollo Dev, now he's slandering all of us

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if things are as tense as was shown in that video from reddit HQ.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.