Of course, Fifa is very profitable even to this day. The FUT mechanics have gambling mechanics (loot packs etc…) it is why it is such a sh*t and predatory system.
The action I took personally wasn’t about a delusion of me thinking that just me was gonna make an impact.
But businesses count on people not taking action because of the mentality “What would change?” and “Just me boycotting doesn’,t matter so why would I?”.
It is much more about putting up a boundary for yourself and enforcing it. I didn’t feel like supporting a company that put out such predatory practices so the thing that I can do is to vote with my wallet, which I did.
If I cannot even do the above myself than I have no right in lecturing others.
I don’t know how much people will leave Reddit but I have no reason to stay and fund their endeavors.
The thing that I do know is when businesses have a monopoly for a service/product they provide the money isn’t gonna go to benefit the user but to maximize profits.
The users of Reddit are gonna get railed in the end, one way or the other.
Beehaw has a code of conduct that everyone can read.
They already said that it is hard to effectively mod because the tooling isn’t there yet.
I really wish people would hamper their expectations a bit. With more people coming, there will be more people willing to contribute for tooling etc. These projects are in it’s infancy so growing pains will happen.
Facebook for example pays around 500mil per year for moderating and Reddit has free labor for it. But even then, Reddit is dependent on 3rd party tooling for their moderators to effectively moderate. That is a company that exists for 18 years or so?
At one point I expect there to be tooling available to make it easier to target ban people from an specific instance or even defederate specific accounts from an instance.
But if you are a mod team of 4 people without effective tooling then I hope that people understand the predicament they are in and also support the server in their efforts and try to understand their reasoning.
At least you don’t have to switch to another platform, you can just make an account on the instance and participate.
I have been toggling between instances and accounts per instance for a good week already and I encounter zero problems with it.
If you just make an account and “activate” the keep yourself logged in checkmark than you can easily switch between instances.
In this stage we are self governing to an extent. The behaviour of people can affect a full instance so everyone has the obligation to think before they post.
Just don’t be a dick/troll/spammer/bigot is more then enough to keep federating for your instance enabled.