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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] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm really confused by the chart on the site https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ I understand the dip annotated with the red arrow, but I do not understand the rebound annotated with the green arrow... With that many sites down, it should not be possible to rebound to normal levels...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Because that dip isn't due to the blackout. Reddit was pretty hard down for about an hour.

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

I could actually see engagement staying relatively the same since most people are probably popping Reddit open for a few minutes, maybe engaging, then moving on.

What I do find odd is how consistent Posts per minute are over time. But it doesn't dip or rise with comments. So now I'm wondering how automated a lot of posting is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bots, all the bot posts. If you even check "All" for a bit even on Lemmy you will see the bots are moving here as well.

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

If you go to the site and view by new it's just page after page of /r/askreddit. Tons of people posting to it with nowhere else to post. So that would explain some of the rebound but the graph is still odd that it rebounded to exactly where it should be if there was no blackout.