this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
211 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37702 readers
306 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
rs5th@beehaw.org
Los@beehaw.org
coldredlight@beehaw.org
SemioticStandard@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
remington@beehaw.org
211
Reddit already looks different for me (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by phase_change@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@beehaw.org
194 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Meseta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they did do research and third party app users make up a small enough portion of their user base that losing them is okay to Reddit.

Keep in mind how popular Reddit is -- for the most part the people left will be content with the karma bots reposting memes for the thirtieth time and there's always going to be somebody racing to be the first to post some news to a related subreddit.

I doubt it'll affect their bottom line too much and in a week it'll be back to business as usual for most subreddits.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think they did do research and third party app users make up a small enough portion of their user base that losing them is okay to Reddit.

users maybe, but i don’t think they considered mods in that. of course they can just replace mods as necessary, but the mod quality will go down for sure.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly, I think you are right about that.