Reddit doesn't have to close in order for this blackout to be successful.
Myspace is still alive but not relevant.
I think the best-case scenerio is that the blackout, combined with 3rd party apps shutting down will cause a partial migration to fediverse-based solutions.
As long as the communities get a kickstart then it will change the company's trajectory.
In the /r/apollodev post there is a section with all the info of the latest call they had before shit hit the fan.
In that, Reddit said that "[Reddit] is open to discussion, if moderators promise to keep subreddits open", so personally, I don't think it won't change anything.
over 6000 / 7000 so far, keeps increasing.
Also, there are several more communities that are locked rather than private that arent being tracked. fuck spez.
Interestingly, two bisexual subreddits, one enby subreddit, and r/holup keep switching between private and public and it has been happening for a full hour now. Mods infighting, perhaps?
877 subreddits have gone dark already, and that number continues to increase
Oddly, r/AdviceAnimals had a sticky about going dark, but now they've nuked any mention of it on their sub and removed the sticky after a moderator gave conflicting information
On the other hand the amount of information that will be lost forever will be staggering if they do stay permanently private, there is almost two decades worth of stuff, a lot of it posted directly to reddit that doesn't exist anywhere else.
True. Even my country's subreddit, r/Malaysia and r/Singapore have this rare cooperation and shut down at the same time.
Well, of course we should exclude subs with supermods, which is pretty big ones, but meh, it's not the supermods that are generating content for reddit, the community is.
I just hope we will have a mass blackout/mass walkout on the 30th. History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.