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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's a lot. All my subs have gone private. Mad respect. Miss them though. The content that is. Fuck reddit. Lemmy ftw

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

LET THE MOTHERFUCKER BURN

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The irony that they're most likely using the Reddit API to show how many subs are going dark in real time...

[โ€“] artistan 5 points 1 year ago

Too bad there isn't a way to also see traffic stats of reddit. Curious to see the affect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey. I'm seeing the TOTAL reddits number go up.

Why's it going up? Are there really 600 new subreddits created in one day?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Someone on the Twitch stream was saying it was 50. That was ... an hour ago? Two?

Is there chicanery? How many new subs are created per hour on a normal day?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the question. 5 hours ago it was only x/6001 subs dark. Now it's

5497 out of 7047

So that's like 1046 new subs in ~5 hours, as reported by Reddark.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that wasn't the total subreddit number? Isn't it the number signed up at modcoord?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, of course. That must be it.

[โ€“] Kamelo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, just hit half of all tracked subreddits.

[โ€“] ArtVandelay 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must admit I did not expect such a wide turnout for the blackout. There's absolutely no way something this massive goes unnoticed by investors, although I doubt it will cause anyone to change course. Hell, even if they do change course I'm fucking done with Reddit.

[โ€“] MarsRT 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully, at least it shows everyone that Reddit is nothing without the communities formed by their users, and how important accessible third-party API access is to Redditors who genuinely care about the website.

[โ€“] Kamelo 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately I don't really know what two days of only most of reddit being private willd do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

up to over a thousand now!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun thing to do: open Reddark, enable sound, and leave it open. It's like preparing popcorn - you want to hear the noise to speed up, then you check it when it slows down, hoping that it's ready.

[โ€“] MarsRT 0 points 1 year ago

I'm trying that right now, the sound effect they chose is surprisingly satisfying

[โ€“] Spitz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my first time watching an online community I'm part of disintegrate in such a violent way. It's surreal. And the reddark list showed some subs I didn't know existed, but wish I had. Oh well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think of it like that gif of a worm blasting off into gametes. Many more worms will result as of this.

[โ€“] Spitz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I know that. It's still sad to watch it crumble for such stupid reasons (like spez).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, can I ask, what are the measurable metrics here for the protest.

Is there any way people can see damage done, etc? See a drop in traffic to reddit, for example? Because unless reddit publicises all this info, won't we just be in the dark as to whether it had any affect at all?

[โ€“] Weerdo 1 points 1 year ago

Less ad money is the big one, but no reddit won't publish that. So it's a stab in the dark.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't look away. I've tried, but I just can't...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Given that this is a counter, I'm loving it far more than I expected. I purged my history and I'm all in on Lemmy.