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

Would be nice to see a graph over time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I'm thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I'm good with it.

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

I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.

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

So are subreddits still planning to stay shut for only 2 days or are we extending that? Because 2 days does not seem enough for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

A lot of subreddits will stay closed indefinitely.

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

I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit

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

The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I'm pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it's shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

8 years, 11 months.

I'm going dark in solidarity. 100 minutes to go in my time zone.

Goodbye, u/mutisi0n. Goodbye, Reddit. It's been real.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.

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

Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.

At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.

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

AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I've seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also /r/technology and /r/programming went dark only after lot's of pressure from all sides and other subs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surprised r/programming went dark, considering its got multiple admins moderating it. I didn't think they would, and they didn't mention anything before I left

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

Come on r/Australia. Do the right thing!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I decided to check the front page (as in /r/popular, what people see by default) out of morbid curiosity since most of Reddit has gone dark now, and honestly it’s like nothing has changed for the casual user.

The biggest subs with the most traffic haven’t gone dark at all, and all the same posts and popular stuff still fill the front page, so for many people I suspect they’re not even going to feel this, but maybe it’s a bit too premature to be making this conclusion, let’s see what happens.

EDIT: I was somewhat premature with this post, even /r/popular is pretty barren as things move nowhere near as fast. That being said, it's disappointing to see how much is still open, and how some subreddits (such as /r/pcmasterrace) are clearly missing the point by allowing "certain posts".

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

same posts and popular stuff

I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual. I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.

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

I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)

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

I suspect curated lists will definitely feel a huge impact, but if I had to guess (and I may be wrong), most traffic comes from browsing the default front page (/r/popular). There isn't quite as much content, but there's still definitely a lot of the same stuff still around.

I could just be too early of course, as many are still in the process of shutting down and people haven't gotten off Reddit yet.

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

hmmm... are we checking the same page r/popular? normally there is a new post every X minutes and now in the main page there are several >8h posts... I think is definitely noticeable and obvious (not to mention the three posts with information about the protest on very popular subreddits)

maybe you were expecting an empty page? that will never happen, if that would happen reddit admins would reopen subs or even upload random memes to new subs to make it "not empty"

or maybe reddit has local content and we are seeing different r/popular, I'm in Europe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

subreddit named after Nazi propaganda has bootlicker mods, wow, what a surprise

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

Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.

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

That probably won't last given Spez's bullshit, but I gotta say, Lemmy is looking pretty promising. The Jeroba mobile app is a little underwhelming though, voting and replying to comments is a hassle. Maybe the RIF dev will make a Lemmy app or help improve Jeroba.

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

The RedReader Dev had said he's looking to include Lemmy.

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

Never tried that one either, I usually used RiF. Is that on Android?

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

How is it a hassle? It seems perfect-enough to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

At least on Android, I can't respond to or vote on responses that show up in my inbox. Clicking on the message itself does nothing instead of taking me to the message. The UI definitely needs improvements in usability but it's still very much in development as far as I could tell.

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

4909 dark atm, sad to see it slowly coming down. Hold!! Hold!!

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

Love this website, well done Dev/s

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