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.
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.
If nothing else it's been very entertaining.
At the very least it's a big fuck you to spez.
Plenty of those lol, Spez is a fucking jackass.
It's at least something... If the userbase and Mods protests against the platform practice it must be a very frustrating thing.
Reddit's CEO seems to be hardcore about it, still. Little Musk as I call him ;P
Agreed, it’s unlikely that anything will change with the current management. Just sucks in general
Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...
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...
Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.
Same
Reddit is just boycotting itself. Nothing to see here
spez probably got butthurt at the blackout and decided to blackout everything instead.
Just wanted to say that's a very nice and clean looking page.
Seeing some subreddits go private as a pop-up in the bottom right while on the site gave me a weird sense of apprehension...
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.
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.
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 it’s like nothing has changed for the casual user.
The biggest subs with the most traffic haven’t gone dark at all, and all the same posts and popular stuff still fill the front page, so for many people I suspect they’re not even going to feel this, but maybe it’s a bit too premature to be making this conclusion, let’s 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".
I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.
I have multiple reddit accounts and on one my front page was literally blank so it depends on what subs you look at
Mine isn't empty, but it's very different from normal. Still lots of stuff with lots of upvotes, but it's just so off. If I didn't know about the blackout stuff, I would've noticed something was up still.
IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)
I suspect curated lists will definitely feel a huge impact, but if I had to guess (and I may be wrong), most traffic comes from browsing the default front page (/r/popular). There isn't quite as much content, but there's still definitely a lot of the same stuff still around.
I could just be too early of course, as many are still in the process of shutting down and people haven't gotten off Reddit yet.
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.
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.
almost 13 years for me, which is kind of wild to say out loud.
going out in a blaze of mediocrity is pretty on brand, given how the site has been dying a slow, bloated death the last few years
You’ll be ok! It’s time to move on!
Indeed, I almost lost 9 full years, lol. That's alright, though. I really like Lemmy and I see that other like-minded folks are migrating as well. Please forgive our traffic! We hope to integrate smoothly
I've read about selling the account, does anyone have more information? My account is 14 years old, it might be worth something.
How much Karma? Older accounts seem to sell for more on Ebay. It might take longer though. Search "Reddit" on ebay and you will see some listings. If you go to completed and then sold, you can see some accounts that recently sold. There was an 11 year account I was looking at the other day that sold for $70
Deleted my icon from my homepage for sync on Saturday evening. Have had the odd craving but have managed to fill time with stuff I've been slacking on.
So thank you reddit for your money grabbing move.
It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!
It might not be affecting the general population of reddit, but I'd hazard to guess that it is affecting the moderators significantly. You only need to piss off the moderators enough for them to take their sub(s) private.
Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.
RIF still works lol.
So is the Boost app. Quick look at Reddit a lot of the usual players on r/All
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.
Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.
It's kind of a useless stat considering the amount of overlap.
Same here, I'm planning to delete my account on 06-30 and append a message to all my comments why I did so.
Shit is collapsing. I hope the Reddit Board are enjoying a huge bowl of ‘Found Out’.
There's also a Twitch stream linked at the top of the page. Join us in sitting around, watching, and chatting as the proverbial shit hits the fan!
if the site won't load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247
This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?
Never too many.
Weirdly enough, the website gone dark on me so now I can't see Reddit subs go dark.
Looks like the website crashed!
It loaded on the fourth try but didn’t have much data but a refresh sent me back to the Cloudflare error page.
it's being streamed https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
Come on r/Australia. Do the right thing!!!
They're still public but they've locked down new posting to mod announcements only, which is kind of confusing but at least it's something.
As a long time member of r/Australia, it is very on point for them to not join the blackout.
Why?
Would be nice to see a graph over time
I feel like each time a sub goes private there should be a custom final message or something. Like a last post saying "Goodnight and good luck" 😅
So long and thanks for all the memes
Is the website using the API to fetch it's data? That would be hilarious.
Site is down :(
I think it would be better to watch the stream instead, the website is being hammered and went down a couple of times already.
I've been watching this for four hours and can't look away, send help
OP can you pin the livestream?
going to the website redirects you there now (:
If most of the subreddits go private, will there be only ads shown on the main web page?
Probably? Otherwise they'd not get any money
kinda wild to see the variety of communities that are a part of the blackout. and the sheer amount of porn subreddits there are. jesus.
Holy shit, it went mental there (1am UK time) suddenly about a hundred subs (I think) went dark one after the other!
Yeah a whole bunch signed up for a bot to do it automagically. I was watching/laughing as I set my 3 member sub to private manually
I'll get my popcorn
Love this website, well done Dev/s
Its like isfreenodedeadyet all over again.
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.
The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.
Nevermind, just seen the note—it's because of too much traffic.
@0485919158191 The site just went down for me (~14:05, 2023-06-11), returning 404, now 403 error.
Just gone down again, sadly. Hopefully not for long!
Looks like the server’s down. Did we break it already?? It was up like half an hour ago.
Every so often I see a sub going public again - any theory on what that means? Mods changing their minds? Reddit installing its own mods?
It takes some time for Reddit to sync correctly. If they flash it means the mods changed to private!
It's a sync problem, there was a note on the website, it solves itself in a few minutes.
stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
my guess is a bug. i just watched r/askelectricians go public, but visiting the sub there's no mention of it ever going dark in the first place
Noticing that the total subreddit count is going up. Not nearly as fast as they’re going dark, but wonder how many duplicate sub’s are getting created. Or is it something more nefarious being done my the admins?
This isn't a list of every single subreddit, pretty sure this site only lists subs that have pledged to go dark. If you Ctrl+F something like askreddit, it doesn't show up at all, because it isn't going dark.
There are almost 3 million subreddits. And over 100k active subreddits.
I think its broken... or crumbling from the 10s of us trying to load page .P
There's currently 4,5k people watching the twitch stream. I bet there are several times that amount of people trying to access the webpage directly. It's just being hugged to death.
Yeah he had to take the site down I think
Bad gateway...
This is amazing to watch!
It's scary to watch, there's so many communities.
такъв протест се случи само поради американската алчност...
