Technology

Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.

What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.

It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users' expense.

I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.

"6236/7265 subreddits are currently dark."

85.83%

That's a pretty good response from the subs.

This is just beautiful to watch. For once reddit comes together to spite... reddit.

I don’t know about you, but streaming the “Darkening” is like the best thing ever. Just reading all the comments as viewers cheer on each subreddit.

When r/trees wend private I was thinking “shit just got real.”

Anyway, I suggest watching the stream, if just for the cameraderie.

It's sad though I truly enjoyed Reddit like obviously many here, but also to be fair I've also felt like the quality of posts and comments overall degraded and the whole thing turned into a big meme factory where only funny images with text and tiktok reposts really were uploaded.

The whole thing started going downhills as soon as the first tiktok reposts started flooding in to be fairly honest. Let's please not let this happen much here, unless of course in dedicated communities for that because everything has a place.

Also, this is my first ever post on Lemmy, hi 👋

The level of unity has been awesome. At first I thought this might only really spread through tech minded subreddits, but it really caught on broadly.

Wow /r/nba decided to go dark. So unexpected and huge respect to the mods there. Really huge one with the NBA finals going on too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230612030017/https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1476rje/team_and_community_rnba_is_participating_in_the/

There's something so therapeutic about having Reddark open in a tab in the background - every time I hear the ding, a little voice in my head cheers. Interesting times, folks.

so many have gone dark already, this is impressive.

This one has a pretty nice look with a list of all 6000 participating subreddits and fading in in real-time when a subreddit goes dark:

https://reddark.untone.uk/

Man, it's so satisfying to watch all of these subreddits switch to green. I really wish more of them committed to an indefinite shutdown though.

I found a different one, posted by the author on the DataIsBeautiful subreddit: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Oh god here it comes. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives

R/SquaredCircle just went dark. They weren't even on the list as far as I saw.

This is awesome. We all need to stick together on this one

Community: snoocalypse

blackout.photon-reddit.com

Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging....

It does have a pretty big impact on the first day already.

Reddit is deddit.

I don't see myself going back to Reddit if they keep those subs closed down. However I do believe that if this "strike" goes on for longer than a week or so, the admins will forcefully replace each closed subreddit mods to make them live again.

They're about 1/5 of the way through the subreddits that said they would go dark. It's crazy watching all of them blink out in real time.

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.

Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿