8479/8838 subreddits are currently dark as of 15.09 BST (British summer time).
This is so heartwarming. Haha, fuck spez.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/
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I think the best Reddit blackout trackers are the ones that highlight the most popular subreddits, like this one showing 204 of the top 250 are dark: https://save3rdpartyapps.com/
All the nay sayers that it won't change anything, are right to a point. Yes the message is "it's only two days, after that it's fine again!", if you're full on corpo. But what the userbase is demonstrating to not just reddit, but future investors on their IPO - is that they are 100% capable of removing everything that makes reddit what it is within days and for an indefinite amount of time. There's always churn. The amount of potential new users being lost due to massive degradation in public feeds will be noticeable. The amount of lost impressions on ads for mega subs will be noticeable.
To my mind, it doesn't even matter if this particular two day period hurts them financially. The message is clear. Reddit isn't some assortment of Twitter schmucks that have no ability to actually have any impact. If there's nothing to monetize, nothing to push ads through, nothing to attract new users, the platform is worthless and the users hold almost all the power.
If reddit takes away the ability to turn subreddits off, they'll be deleted next time. This generation is fed up with being helpless pawns in shitty CEO games. I deleted several accounts and don't have any left. I am done with reddit as an actual user and contributor.
Every time they go toe to toe with their user base they will bleed the users that keep that place running and relevant.
I'm loving that this is actually so wide spread.
All of this! Plus, from my perspective anyway, this has given a lot of people the chance to get their feet wet with other platforms and ecosystems.
While it may not be a majority, I do believe there will be well seasoned users that see how the whole thing was handled by Reddit, and see the potential in these other avenues, and stay in those new places instead.
So far, I would say I'm one of those users. After a decade on Reddit and decline in quality, I'm certainly happy to call a new platform home and grow with it.
It will change things too, not for reddit, but for competitors (like kbin).
A tiny site can only grow so fast, at some point things start breaking (both technically and as a community) and users stop joining, but as sites grow bigger they also gain the ability to grow faster.
The protest means that every possible alternative to reddit has been growing as fast as it can reasonably support. That's probably not fast enough to hurt reddit this time, but next time it might be.
I'm just looking forward to news item Reddit puts out gaslighting everyone into thinking nothing of real consequence happened.
Alternate read: every sub that comes back is firmly and clearly telling Reddit that no matter how badly they behave, they will still use the site.