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Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we'll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Looking at this thread in r/technology, it sure looks like most of the newer Redditors were just pissed by the blackout and don’t care about Reddit’s changes. That suggests to me that Reddit is beyond saving.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why bother having competent and informed users when you can have people who just want to wolf down whatever is on their frontpage? /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have and I shied away in disgust, spez has and his eyes displayed the dollar sign

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Dave Chappell cocaine meme: Y’all got any more of them… shitposts?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The way people bow and worship at the feet of billion dollar companies will never cease to amaze me.

A long time ago, back when getting a Gmail address required an invite, I was a big Google fan. They were doing some awesome stuff, and i didn't know much online privacy.

As I got older, and I started learning stuff, I became less and less of a Google fan, and now I avoid them and advocate for others to do so as well.

The abusive relationship people have with megacorps is just... SMH.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf the people that are currently using reddit( and responding) probably care less than the people that actually left/boycotting it ( and they wouldnt be there to voice their opinions)

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

I hope that’s true. But on the other hand, these zombified “endless summer” guys are exactly who we don’t want to make the jump to lemmy, right?

[–] Drunemeton 6 points 1 year ago
[–] PokerChips 4 points 1 year ago

Just leave the mouth breathers behind.

[–] AteMoonPie 3 points 1 year ago

I also read lots of comments saying that the official app works so don't we share feedbacks to the official team and improve it instead. They never get it. We want to make our own choices of which app to use. Not to be forced to use the only app the official approves!