AtomicPurple

I mostly stuck to a small circle of communities on Reddit, and while the quality of content has stayed about the same, the frequency of posts has dropped notably in most of them.
The one exception is /r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/, which is supposed to be for IT memes and funny interactions with users. Since the blackout started, that sub has gradually devolved into reposts of years old memes (not even IT specific memes, just anything tech related) and text posts asking random computer questions, which was previously banned.

To be fair Nintendo kind of brought that one on themselves by making the cartridges taste bad.

Someone (presumably at Reddit, but there's no hard proof of that), has recently begun using a large number of dummy accounts and what appears to be ChatGPT to post pro-admin, anti-protest comments across the site, and give them a lot of upvotes. Someone figured this out and posed evidence of it to /r/programming. Shortly after that thread reached the top of /r/programming, the subreddit was abruptly closed by the site admins, which is extremely suspect to say the least.

I'm disappointed to not see any mention of Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer. It's hilarious and definitely one of my favorite games of the year so far.

Alternatively: "well there's a program for it, but it has a million dependencies and hasn't been updated in 10 years, just use the command line"

Very clever, only problem is it's not a general solution.

Either server logs, or the hackers sending them part of the data they have to prove they're ligit. I assume the latter would have happened if Reddit had shown any interest in negotiating.

I took that to mean no one at Reddit bothered to check what was stolen.