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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.

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.

Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...

Would be nice to see a graph over time

I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?

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.

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.

Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.

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".

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.

This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?

How many subs went dark? The link is not showing that as of 1445 PDT

many will have a cake day this week, it will be an indication of a fellow refugee hahaha

Its like isfreenodedeadyet all over again.

Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.

Congrats to...checks notes.../r/earfetish for being the 1000th to go dark lol

Come on r/Australia. Do the right thing!!!

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...

Is the website using the API to fetch it's data? That would be hilarious.

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!

I'm one of the new Lemmy users, fleeing from the sinking ship that is Reddit. Hi everyone!

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" 😅

Shit is collapsing. I hope the Reddit Board are enjoying a huge bowl of ‘Found Out’.

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!

The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.

Nevermind, just seen the note—it's because of too much traffic.

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?

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.

4909 dark atm, sad to see it slowly coming down. Hold!! Hold!!

Love this website, well done Dev/s

If most of the subreddits go private, will there be only ads shown on the main web page?

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?

r/Satisfyingasfuck to watch!

Weirdly enough, the website gone dark on me so now I can't see Reddit subs go dark.