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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was in the 500-600 range a few hours ago. It’s really happening

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My hot take: Going dark won't change anything, but it's still a nice middle finger.

Following June 30 is when reddit will really change, when mods and influential users leave the site due to losing support for 3PA

Reddit will continue to be propped up like Weekend At Bernie's after that, much like the sites of the past like Digg and MySpace

Reddit will gradually lose all cred and will be considered just as sketchy as any other social media

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit doesn't have to close in order for this blackout to be successful.

Myspace is still alive but not relevant.

I think the best-case scenerio is that the blackout, combined with 3rd party apps shutting down will cause a partial migration to fediverse-based solutions.

As long as the communities get a kickstart then it will change the companies trajectory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping it'll just kinda fracture people into their preferred online homebases, opening up opportunities to fool around everywhere.

Reddit gradually went from "The Front Page of the Internet" to "Basically the Entire Internet" for a lot of us and it doesn't need to remain that way.

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

Going dark won’t change anything,

In the /r/apollodev post there is a section with all the info of the latest call they had before shit hit the fan.

In that, Reddit said that "[Reddit] is open to discussion, if moderators promise to keep subreddits open", so personally, I don't think it won't change anything.

As for what, we have yet to see.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me so much of the mistake digg made that made me and so many people move over to reddit.

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

Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it, and those who know helplessly watch as others repeat it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

over 6000 / 7000 so far, keeps increasing. Also, there are several more communities that are locked rather than private that arent being tracked. fuck spez.

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

6553/7265 subreddits are currently dark.

That's like ... 2500 more than originally committed currently gone dark, not including the ones that have locked. This is going great.

Lol at the contrarians who said we wouldn't go through with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

https://reddark-digitalocean-7lhfr.ondigitalocean.app/

Someone made a fork of the reddark site. This currently works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And many of the ones that aren't dark, have restricted submissions.

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

What a result! The spiteful bastard in me wishes it were permanent. Fuck corporate culture, fuck two-faced slimeball dickshits, and fuck /u/spez.

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

Ha yeah. TBH it led me to lemmy and I'm having such a good time here that I wouldn't have it any other way

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

On the other hand the amount of information that will be lost forever will be staggering if they do stay permanently private, there is almost two decades worth of stuff, a lot of it posted directly to reddit that doesn't exist anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just wanna say the "pip" noise as another one dies is darkly funny.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is oddly satisfying to watch.

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

Listening to those noises is hilariously satisfying.

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

I guess that is one way to keep the site "up"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

877 subreddits have gone dark already, and that number continues to increase

Oddly, r/AdviceAnimals had a sticky about going dark, but now they've nuked any mention of it on their sub and removed the sticky after a moderator gave conflicting information

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

Interestingly, two bisexual subreddits, one enby subreddit, and r/holup keep switching between private and public and it has been happening for a full hour now. Mods infighting, perhaps?

Edit: it's now been two hours since it started and the bisexuals and enbies ironically still have not decided

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wait even subreddits have sexualities now? They better sort out their fights in private!

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

too bad the site can't run on popcorn!

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

The stream is awesome, though.

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

Literally more than 1/5 of the subreddits gone dark.

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

It's so satisfying to watch!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. Even my country's subreddit, r/Malaysia and r/Singapore have this rare cooperation and shut down at the same time. Well, of course we should exclude subs with supermods, which is pretty big ones, but meh, it's not the supermods that are generating content for reddit, the community is. I just hope we will have a mass blackout/mass walkout on the 30th. History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

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

I hope so too. I expect a lot of mods and influential users will leave after June 30

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

Feels like watching a house burn down to me, sadly.

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

Just checked and it's at 1/3 of the planned shutdowns now.

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

Shareholders def going to feel this one. I hope pez gets fired and I hope this continues for more then just two days.