Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Looks like it got hugged
It's sad though I truly enjoyed Reddit like obviously many here, but also to be fair I've also felt like the quality of posts and comments overall degraded and the whole thing turned into a big meme factory where only funny images with text and tiktok reposts really were uploaded.
The whole thing started going downhills as soon as the first tiktok reposts started flooding in to be fairly honest. Let's please not let this happen much here, unless of course in dedicated communities for that because everything has a place.
Also, this is my first ever post on Lemmy, hi 👋
I feel like this still depended on community. There was plenty of more niche hobby specific communities that were enjoyable. r/coffee comes to mind for me or something like r/fountain pens. I still enjoyed r/Analog although that had it’s own issues.
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It's going to be satisfying watching them slowly tick green.
Looks like it got the hug of death.
Our first hug of death!
Aww, lemmy is officially grown up now!
I do hope the ones going dark migrate here and start over.
The level of unity has been awesome. At first I thought this might only really spread through tech minded subreddits, but it really caught on broadly.
There's something so therapeutic about having Reddark open in a tab in the background - every time I hear the ding, a little voice in my head cheers. Interesting times, folks.
Honestly, even a year ago I don't think I would have imagined this happening. I wasn't around for the Digg -> Reddit migration but I wonder if this feels a bit like that.
I went LiveJournal > Digg > Reddit, and there's definitely a similar energy to the Digg days - but the level of organization we're seeing here feels totally new. The other difference though, is that the Digg migration had direction. It felt like within a month we had all moved to Reddit. I don't see that happening here, so really this is uncharted territory. It'll be fun to watch, that's for sure.
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so many have gone dark already, this is impressive.
Nice to see the subreddits listed by subs. Reddit can't ignore this... interested to see how they respond. I'm sure it will be some half baked knee jerk reaction that will get the community even more against them.
I'm not entirely sure. Seems like there will be plenty of inertia from the subreddits remaining open. I'd imagine that eventually Reddit will force them open again.
But they aren't going to be getting those moderators back on the site without some sort of change. It'll be really interesting to see how much of an impact that has.
Reddit will replace the mod teams of the core subs with some of the many power hungry citizens of the web.
If they need to I expect they will pay contracts for them.
I'm not optimistic that it will affect Reddit.
Reddit paying moderators means they have editorial control, which means they lose safe harbor protections and are liable for all content on their site.
Arguably, Reddit picking moderators may have the same effect. See https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-9th-circuit/1856011.html.
I fell like throwing out the mods might just be that reaction. Anyway if anything, I might only share Lemmy content on Reddit in the future.
this is what we are doing, moving everything here then will be resharing links to lemmy posts on reddit. going to do the same thing on all the centralized networks.
Thanks for sharing!
This one has a pretty nice look with a list of all 6000 participating subreddits and fading in in real-time when a subreddit goes dark:
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This is just beautiful to watch. For once reddit comes together to spite... reddit.
Oh god here it comes. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I don't see myself going back to Reddit if they keep those subs closed down. However I do believe that if this "strike" goes on for longer than a week or so, the admins will forcefully replace each closed subreddit mods to make them live again.
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They're about 1/5 of the way through the subreddits that said they would go dark. It's crazy watching all of them blink out in real time.
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I was looking for something like this, thanks for sharing!
Also a good opportunity to back it up everyone with just not visiting their site. I've added 127.0.0.1 reddit.com old.reddit.com www.reddit.com mod.reddit.com i.reddit.com to my hosts file so I don't accidentally follow a link to Reddit (I think they have a lot more subdomains, so the hosts file based approach isn't perfect, but hopefully good enough for a quick solution).
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Here's a live Twitch stream tracking the subreddits going down based upon your link, which is based upon r/Modcoord .
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Man, it's so satisfying to watch all of these subreddits switch to green. I really wish more of them committed to an indefinite shutdown though.
The site has been overloaded, so now they are streaming it on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
I found a different one, posted by the author on the DataIsBeautiful subreddit: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
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So they use reddit APIs to check the status? They must be very rich
According to their GitHub page (their code is all open source), they pull the data from the r/modcoord sub.
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This has been super interesting. I’ve never seen communities listed in this manner. I’d be interested in this kind of sort for other services as well.
Really hoping to see major players go dark soon and wishing they would stay that way, like r/videos plans to. Oh, what the world would be like if corporations actually cared about the people they profit from.
Check for r/argentina, could not find it but it will be dark temporarily, maybe it's because of that. Great site!
This is great to see. Thanks for sharing.
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