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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.

I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens

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.

I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit
A lot of subreddits will stay closed indefinitely.
- I feel this won't happen. If big subs continue to be dark too long, the reddit admins would simply remove the hostile volunteer mods and reopen the subs. The mods are used to being gods of their little domains. If they cross the line, they will be reminded that they own nothing. They can obey reddit or they can be replaced.
  That is what I see in the future for any mods that try to hold subs hostage indefinitely.

Would be nice to see a graph over time

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

Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.
- Same
Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren't interrupted too much...
- I can open r/ukraine on RIF. 3rd party apps still work.
Reddit is just boycotting itself. Nothing to see here
spez probably got butthurt at the blackout and decided to blackout everything instead.

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

in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community
Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.
subreddit named after Nazi propaganda has bootlicker mods, wow, what a surprise
- "subreddit named after Nazi propaganda"
  Please.
- Must be a console user.
- Nazi propaganda
  Wat

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.

If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it's shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.
- What's Tilde? Tried looking it up but all that comes up is a software firm and a translator app.

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.

AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I've seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.
- Also /r/technology and /r/programming went dark only after lot's of pressure from all sides and other subs.
- i think the mods made a post and said they want to stay ‘neutral’.

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

It's kind of a useless stat considering the amount of overlap.
Same here, I'm planning to delete my account on 06-30 and append a message to all my comments why I did so.

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".

I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.
same posts and popular stuff
I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual. I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.
IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)
- I suspect curated lists will definitely feel a huge impact, but if I had to guess (and I may be wrong), most traffic comes from browsing the default front page (/r/popular). There isn't quite as much content, but there's still definitely a lot of the same stuff still around.
  I could just be too early of course, as many are still in the process of shutting down and people haven't gotten off Reddit yet.
I have multiple reddit accounts and on one my front page was literally blank so it depends on what subs you look at

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

I've already seen a megathread on Lemmy linking to porn communities. It's inevitable
- Just to be safe, what's the link so I never accidentally go there. For science.
- Oh God, that's horrible.
  Do you have a link?
Never too many.
I think there's enough.

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.

I've read about selling the account, does anyone have more information? My account is 14 years old, it might be worth something.
- How much Karma? Older accounts seem to sell for more on Ebay. It might take longer though. Search "Reddit" on ebay and you will see some listings. If you go to completed and then sold, you can see some accounts that recently sold. There was an 11 year account I was looking at the other day that sold for $70
You’ll be ok! It’s time to move on!

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

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

Currently the page says 7278 (out of 7806) have gone dark.

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

lmao!

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

RIF still works lol.
- That probably won't last given Spez's bullshit, but I gotta say, Lemmy is looking pretty promising. The Jeroba mobile app is a little underwhelming though, voting and replying to comments is a hassle. Maybe the RIF dev will make a Lemmy app or help improve Jeroba.
- So is the Boost app. Quick look at Reddit a lot of the usual players on r/All

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

As a long time member of r/Australia, it is very on point for them to not join the blackout.
- Why?
They're still public but they've locked down new posting to mod announcements only, which is kind of confusing but at least it's something.

Its like isfreenodedeadyet all over again.

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

it's not bad eh!

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" 😅

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...

Reminds me of the scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where people are watching their galaxies go "foom".
- nice to see a hitchhiker's reference!

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!

if the site won't load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247

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

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!

It might not be affecting the general population of reddit, but I'd hazard to guess that it is affecting the moderators significantly. You only need to piss off the moderators enough for them to take their sub(s) private.

Love this website, well done Dev/s

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.

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?

This isn't a list of every single subreddit, pretty sure this site only lists subs that have pledged to go dark. If you Ctrl+F something like askreddit, it doesn't show up at all, because it isn't going dark.

The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.

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

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

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

it's being streamed https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
- It had too many visitors. There’s like 3k people watching this on twitch right now.

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?

It takes some time for Reddit to sync correctly. If they flash it means the mods changed to private!

r/Satisfyingasfuck to watch!

You mean c/oddlysatisfying ;)

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

Probably? Otherwise they'd not get any money