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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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[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

For the semi-lurker like me there's nothing holding me back to Reddit. Some current news, sprinkle of meme, some draft comments that I will never submit and some meaningful discussion from community, fediverse has all those.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went back into Reddit a couple times during the blackout as it's so easy to click the Infinity icon on my homescreen. And I've got to say, the quality of posts on my feed were so much worse. Zero text posts, only images. I started unsubscribing from a bunch of those subreddits. Starting to realize how little value most of Reddit gives me. The only things of actual value are behind subreddits that have gone dark. I've been enjoying Lemmy so much more and having more meaningful conversation. It's so much better

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[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don't like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.

I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~I was impressed with the honesty of the /r/tumblr mod who told the community the only reason they weren't blacking out was because they thought they might get removed and they wanted to keep their "job". Way to make the community hate you~~ Just found out that that mod changed their mind and decided to go dark anyway, and was promptly removed by Reddit. Well, I guess they did see it coming!

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[–] angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

wonder if regular carpet bombing the open subs with a black "Reddit is killing third-party app (and itself)" might be effective? gives the mods an "out" because it's not against TOS - and if it were widespread enough eventually a few of them will hit front page

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Looking at the tracker comments seem to reaching parity with posts again, as they were pre-blackout. For the two days of the protest 67% of subs were private, yet posts hardly deviated from the norm - and comments only slightly below. Is the implication that people in subs that didn't join in like r/news etc just posted/commented that much more in a show of support ha ha ha, or is this a de facto admission that much of the site's traffic is just bots? Are investors down with that? I haven't seen this actually hashed out in discussions much.

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[–] Yabai@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I've checked in on reddit a few time to see the chaos but otherwise I'm staying away, ain't giving them my traffic.

[–] graffitiworthreading@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

This is my first day on beehaw, and I'm planning to shift as much of what I previously did on reddit to this platform or others. Hopefully that will allow me to abandon reddit completely. I'm looking forward to learning more about this place and seeing how it develops.

[–] BlackCoffee@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Decoupling from Reddit has been easier than I thought.

Am actually rotating between Lemmy instances and Kbin to read the articles and thoughts in between my workday and it works like a charm.

It also really helps that I pavlovd myself to associate Reddit with garbage and instantly make the connection to how they see and treat their userbase.

It made me open reddit only once during the last days.

  • To run PDS after the blackout.
[–] sincle354@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just got a big blue headline on old.reddit.com, trying to negotiate their way out of the modtool API debacle. Anyone know the request rate of modtools? I can't imagine a 60->100 query per minute increase is substantial

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I went ahead and posted a goodbye message on my Reddit profile, linking to my Lemmy and Mastodon profiles.

Now we'll see if the Reddit admins have the audacity to ban me for “spam” over a single post on my own profile.

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

According to reddark, there were more than 7K subs closed this morning, right now there's a bit above 6300, with many opening as we speak. We'll see.

[–] StaticFlow@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Today I did it, I deleted my apps. No reflexive opening of reddit

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