Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
view the rest of the comments
I think I see the problem. 99% of the site wasn't dark. That reddark site was showing a hand curated list of subs that announced they were going dark, compared to the number of those subs that did go dark. The exact numbers are impossible to track down, but reddit claims they have "100k+" active communities. Less than 10% of reddit actually went dark, conservatively speaking.
Of course, all subs are not created equal, so just comparing sub numbers doesn't tell the whole story, but even anecdotally, my sub list was mostly intact during the blackout.
If they only loose 10% of users or less. That can still be fatal. If they keep the 99% that's lurking but lose the 1% that creates the content. The lurkers will leave eventually. Just slightly delayed. And from what I've seen there's been a lot of content creation and activity here. And plenty of lurking as well. I think the reality is that we won't see the true impact on Reddit for another few months.