I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?
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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
Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.
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.
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.
If nothing else it's been very entertaining.
Just wanted to say that's a very nice and clean looking page.
Seeing some subreddits go private as a pop-up in the bottom right while on the site gave me a weird sense of apprehension...
Reminds me of the scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where people are watching their galaxies go "foom".
Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...
Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren't interrupted too much...
I can open r/ukraine on RIF. 3rd party apps still work.
that's irony
Most will shut down on June 30 when reddit is overcharging to use the api, essentially to force them out and make you use their app with tracking and advertising.
Yeah, that's why I'm here. Ironic that the current status is that the site is down but 3rd party apps work..
Site seems to be back up now.
Reddit is just boycotting itself. Nothing to see here
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.
A lot of subreddits will stay closed indefinitely.
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.
Congrats to...checks notes.../r/earfetish for being the 1000th to go dark lol
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 itβs like nothing has changed for the casual user.
The biggest subs with the most traffic havenβt gone dark at all, and all the same posts and popular stuff still fill the front page, so for many people I suspect theyβre not even going to feel this, but maybe itβs a bit too premature to be making this conclusion, letβs 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".
I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.
I have multiple reddit accounts and on one my front page was literally blank so it depends on what subs you look at
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.
I'm one of the new Lemmy users, fleeing from the sinking ship that is Reddit. Hi everyone!
It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!
Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.
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.
Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.
It's kind of a useless stat considering the amount of overlap.
There's also a Twitch stream linked at the top of the page. Join us in sitting around, watching, and chatting as the proverbial shit hits the fan!
Shit is collapsing. I hope the Reddit Board are enjoying a huge bowl of βFound Outβ.
This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?
Never too many.
Weirdly enough, the website gone dark on me so now I can't see Reddit subs go dark.
Is the website using the API to fetch it's data? That would be hilarious.