• fupuyifi@kbin.social
    211·
    2 years ago

    This is the heart of Reddit - total coordination of random users uniting for a common cause and message.

    What’s the back story for using John Oliver? What did I miss🤔

    • Speff@melly.0x-ia.moe
      251·
      2 years ago

      I have to agree - this is classic reddit. Spez obviously couldn’t care less about namecalling.

      • The corp gets to use the CEO as a punching bag - which is pretty much his job description…

      • Redditors can feel good about upvoting a picture “sticking it to the man” while actually doing nothing - participating on a site that’s still reaming them

      • Buying all the reddit awards for the post, GIVING THE COMPANY THEY’RE SUPPOSEDLY STICKING IT TO MORE MONEY. Bullshit like this pisses me off after finding out the Lemmy devs pretty much make less than minimum wage with donations

      • DrLongTRL@feddit.de
        7·
        2 years ago

        People could also dump their already purchased coins into fuck spez posts to be fair. Just because they gave an award here doesn’t mean they specifically purchased it for that occasion.

      • Steeve@lemmy.ca
        6·
        2 years ago

        Pretty sure most awards given are free. My account has a bunch of coins on it for some reason.

      • CoderKat@kbin.social
        13·
        2 years ago

        It helps that he’s a great person.

        Plus, he’s reacted to people using his image in unusual ways before. He has an absolutely hilarious episode where he responds to someone mass generating AI created art of him in love with a cabbage. He noted the AI did a poor job, presumably through lack of adequate training data, so he married a cabbage in camera to help provide said training data!

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          Sadly, his show is currently off the air due to the writer’s strike. Hope it’s not so long that this isn’t ancient history by the time he’s back.

    • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Several subs had a vote and changed their rules to only allow John Oliver content. The vote was done to ensure the mods are not deciding over the desire of their user base as spez had claimed they do.

        • athos77@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          When they had free awards, you could only give one every 24 hours.

          The awards that are “paid for” using reddit coins, you can buy those any time. And some of the awards also gift the awardee coins in addition to the award. So even if you never actually have money to reddit, you could still end up with reddit coins. And what better use for them than to highlight the protests?

  • desmondjones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I can’t wait for Oliver to talk about this on his show and spend some stupid amount of money to help the cause

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
          7·
          2 years ago

          Yep, and I can’t think of a single time when a striking union’s demands weren’t reasonable. You don’t strike on a whim; that is the last option for conflict resolution, and you’re not getting paid for the duration of it. That said, you’re going to make damn sure that your demands are reasonable and are likely to be met as soon as possible.

          Strikes are also very visible, so you are going to want public opinion on your side. Thus, you’re even more encouraged to head to the negotiating table in good faith. But, every time it happens, higher ups always try to paint the strikers as greedy, entitled leeches demanding a handout (almost as if they’re projecting 🤔 ).

  • n0stalghia@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    Personally don’t pirate stuff, but gotta support folks who are leaving Reddit. So… here I am I guess?

    • DeadGemini@waveform.social
      8·
      2 years ago

      -qBittorrent

      -TorrentGalaxy, The Pirate Bay, 1337x

      -Plex

      -Mullvad VPN

      -Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr

      Yanno, just in case you wanna get your hands dirty, here’s a list of things you can Google. Listed in order of importance (imo).

      • Fastjur@feddit.nl
        1·
        2 years ago

        Isn’t Mullvad considered a bad option now since it doesn’t allow port forwarding anymore? It still works in my setup but I thought that being able to portforward increased potential peers?

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      It’s never too late to start pirating. I’m sure plenty of folks here would be happy to hook you up.

      Not to apply any pressure, mind you. If you’re just here to soak in the pirate culture tourists are fine too. There’s probably a gift shop, take free copies of anything you find in there.

      • Singletona@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        Eh. I’ll let the younger generation have their fun. These days I’m more interested in the technical aspects than the actual content.