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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A word on reddit, blackouts, & effective protesting: https://piped.video/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M

wish some reddit mods participating in the blackout watched it.

[–] Tinawebmom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mod of small (~26,000 users) sub. We'll be staying dark indefinitely. Talking to my other mods for other subs and recommending they do the same. We're tiny but hopefully it sends a message to our users.

[–] tamato@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago

As a user of a shut-down (maybe temporarily) community in Reddit, the fact that it was shut down and has a decently active (migrating) community here is the very reason i have a Lemmy account.

Shutting down on Reddit is a valid working strategy to send a message, so you made the right choice

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

He makes some really good points. Why should reddit corporate give a shit about a timeboxed tantrum? If people aren't going to commit, then there's no point.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Mod of 60k. We're staying dark indefinitely since all mods use 3rd party apps.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wow, I didn't know there was a peertube instance getting this much traffic, at least I think its peertube?

Unfortunately the video doesn't play too well on my end, lots of jitter and jumping.

[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's a piped instance link which just downloads and serves the video from YouTube. It's privacy friendly because your browser doesn't hit Google's site where they'll just further build up your ad profile.

It seems to be used quite a lot here when people can't find the video on PeerTube.