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Site to track Subreddit's as they go dark (reddark.untone.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the 5,563 on the side the total number of subreddits!? That would mean 1/5 of all subreddits are now private. :O

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

Feels a little apocalyptic.

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

We shall see which subs stay closed past two days. A lot of moderators have said they will reopen because otherwise Reddit will remove them. Saying out loud that the protest is toothless. Only the moderators willing to be removed will have any impact. If there is a mass de-modding that requires Reddit Corporate to fill in permanently with their own mods, only then will lasting actual damage be done. Otherwise, the protest is a speedbump that Corporate won’t even feel.

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

I think that's just the number of subs that announced they will go dark.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We're at 1960/6001 right now. So almost 1/3. And the US is still 6 hours away from midnight, I suspect well over half to be dark eventually.