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Reddit already looks different for me (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by phase_change@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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.

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[–] overlordror@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I love how many of the subreddits are going dark for this protest. The community IS reddit. It is NOT the assholes who took VC-backed money to fleece crypto bros out of money. It's idiotic. I hope everyone understands that you can find quality discussions in the fediverse and leaves reddit accordingly. They're not the gatekeeper of good conversation online.

[–] poohbear@toons.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Even a change in atmosphere with communities from this would be substantial, though - even if there isn’t a day and night change with active users, if enough of the power users have left and discussions don’t really meet the “vibe check”, that’ll just naturally kill off user activity and it’s pretty much the same result

[–] BeardedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like Reddit is down at the moment. I wonder if they're making any large changes today to take advantage of the blackout distraction.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.house 0 points 2 years ago

I just deleted both my reddit accounts but overwrote years worth of comments and posts first

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm only seeing plumbing and homeimprovement subs. :)

And a lot of people posting "hey, what happened to ?". Like... have you been living on the sun the past two weeks?

[–] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Crowds of people can be incredibly clueless. Before the blackout, there would be stickied posts explaining the whole situation in plain language, and then dozens of comments like “What’s going on I don’t understand??????”

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