matt

There's been quite a lot of large companies and institutions on the Fediverse, mostly on Mastodon. As long as there are people there, corporate will follow too.

Some examples:

• ARD, the largest German public broadcaster, has their own Mastodon instance (https://ard.social/explore)
• The EU itself has their own Mastodon instance (https://social.network.europa.eu/explore)
• The German federal authorities also have their own Mastodon instance (https://social.bund.de/explore)

Then there's all the big FOSS tech groups like KDE and Mozilla who are on the Fediverse too.

As long as there's an audience, people will come, just have to withstand the growing pains.

I absolutely want to sit inside on a hot day if there's air conditioning, because going outside is miserable!

I can't stand this sort of heat/humidity, the last 2 weeks were absolutely lovely though, give us more of that.

It was actually pleasant this morning cycling to work, then I walked outside 15 minutes ago for lunch and it felt like the sun was trying kill me and the air trying to suffocate me.

Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?

I think you're right, it's been a couple of hours now and nothing has moved, I've also gone into some of the reddits still open and they're all restricted, so really there's no content.

I jumped the gun a bit there, now it's time to try and avoid the site indefinitely.

I browse through a privacy frontend (libreddit), but I've never really seen new posts constantly on /r/popular, usually after maybe 30 minutes to an hour.

I definitely wasn't expecting an empty page, but I was expecting it to be... different, but it isn't really, it's just all the same memes / politics posts that I'm used to seeing.

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.

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".

Lol hi! I somehow posted on this but it was a complete accident, I was trying to post on something else but the page switched over here automatically, I'll leave it up anyway if you want.

Still, welcome to Lemmy, the Fediverse is a great concept and hopefully it gets bigger!

This isn't a list of every single subreddit, pretty sure this site only lists subs that have pledged to go dark. If you Ctrl+F something like askreddit, it doesn't show up at all, because it isn't going dark.

Edit: Oops, this wasn't meant to be here and got posted here due to a bug, just so you know if this feels weirdly out of context.

I decided to check the front page 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.

On any given social media site, 90% of people only lurk, 9% of people comment on content, and 1% of people post the actual content.

I'm using Startpage and it's been mostly fine. The biggest issue is that the "nested" results that come from Google (e.g. a forum and related posts) don't show in Startpage, it will only show the main result.

I really wanted to use something like SearXNG, but I get basically zero results whenever I use an instance, no idea if I'm missing something in how they work.