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.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens
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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.
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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.
I feel this won't happen. If big subs continue to be dark too long, the reddit admins would simply remove the hostile volunteer mods and reopen the subs. The mods are used to being gods of their little domains. If they cross the line, they will be reminded that they own nothing. They can obey reddit or they can be replaced.
That is what I see in the future for any mods that try to hold subs hostage indefinitely.
A possible problem is that they would be forced to find new volunteers to run them. While I bet there's many who want to be "gods" I bet it's harder to find people who can do it well enough to run a 10+ million forum. Especially hamstringed by reddits lack of modtools.
So sure, Reddit can remove the mods and do it multiple times but it will continuously lead to a worse experience and sooner or later an unacceptable amount of spam, hate and CP will cause the advertisers to pull their ads.
This is absolutely true. There are often calls for 'anyone want to mod' on even smaller subs... and you know, it sounds fun to a lot of folks at first. But if you've ever actualy been a mod, even of a smaller community online? It loses its appeal very quickly.
Real-world equivalent: βYou should run for HOA President!β
Or, union president. Or pto president. Or fucking president of anything else that's volunteer run. Just. No. Some things aren't worth it.
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I'd like to see the mods wipe the subs on their way out if reddit continues to ignore the community.
Sadly, I think you're right. And with the wild number of bootlickers out there, they'll be able to find new mods for those subs in a matter of minutes.
Edit: which will be hilarious since all the good mod tools are 3rd party πππ
these subs will turn into dumpsters due to lack of moderation and people hopefully will leave
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I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit
Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...
Donβt even want to login to give them a hit.
Same
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.
Ironic.
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.
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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.
AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I've seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.
Also /r/technology and /r/programming went dark only after lot's of pressure from all sides and other subs.
Surprised r/programming went dark, considering its got multiple admins moderating it. I didn't think they would, and they didn't mention anything before I left
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I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?
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.
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Would be nice to see a graph over time
Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.
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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.
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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".
same posts and popular stuff
I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual. I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.
I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.
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many will have a cake day this week, it will be an indication of a fellow refugee hahaha
How many subs went dark? The link is not showing that as of 1445 PDT
Currently the page says 7278 (out of 7806) have gone dark.
This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?
I've already seen a megathread on Lemmy linking to porn communities. It's inevitable
Just to be safe, what's the link so I never accidentally go there. For science.
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Never too many.
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