There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it's kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
My expectation is that if any of the higher traffic subs hold the line for more than a few days, the greedy little pig boy will replace the mods with loyalists and force them open.
I'm honestly grateful in a way. It's forced me to look very seriously at the fediverse apps such as Lemmy and I'm really liking the model more than putting all of our eggs in one basket.
Agreed. As much as I am saddened to lose out on some of the communities from reddit, I think this is the right direction. In time the communities will come back together and we will have been better off decentralizing.
Does anybody know what is Reddit's userbase size? It's difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.
It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won't have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public
There's no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless 'active' means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.