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Tim Chambers Jun 14, 2023

#RedditBlackout organizers aren't fooling around and many have shifted into full on scortched earth on Reddit and to #RedditMigration mode:

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Eric McCorkle Jun 14, 2023

@tchambers this is starting to look like the emergence of an entirely new kind of resistance, aimed at monopolistic social media companies.

Like, on the level of whenever "strikes" were first invented...

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Kudra

Jun 18, 2023

@emc2 @tchambers pleasingly, it's actually worse. Because trust in websites is really a lot easier to break than refusing to work until your conditions are met: there's somewhere else else to go, your not beholden to the owners of capital. Once your free labour gets pissed, if organised it can bugger off to a different location online and continue doing what it was doing before, but under better conditions.

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Eric McCorkle

@kudra @tchambers

This is sort of Klein's "shock doctrine", but in reverse. Twice now, major platforms have hit breaking points, and seem to be structurally unable to handle it.

OSS has the advantage that it can't really be stopped, and projects tend to get better over time. It also doesn't have to be dominant; it only needs to be present to exert a significant pressure on the private sector.