Hopefully I’m posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

  • followthewhiterabbit@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.comOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m curious if you directed the users of those subs to any particular alternative?

      I mean, apparently they are already bleeding money, but I doubt that these changes are going to do much to help in that regard.

      • followthewhiterabbit@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        On two we presented the options abailable (Lemmy, Mastodon, Usnet and so on), on the biggest we didn’t do that. It was a last-minute announcement, so didn’t really have the time (also too many cooks with different recipes, so to speak).

        I’m sure it won’t matter in the long run, but should we not try? A giant company runs on advertising. And the time we stop users interacting and engaging with these ads can only be a good thing.

        As I’m writing this, 4,669 of 6,934 subs have gone dark.

        Its beautiful to see.

  • sintamo@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Honestly, even a year ago I don’t think I would have imagined this happening. I wasn’t around for the Digg -> Reddit migration but I wonder if this feels a bit like that.

      • sintamo@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I went LiveJournal > Digg > Reddit, and there’s definitely a similar energy to the Digg days - but the level of organization we’re seeing here feels totally new. The other difference though, is that the Digg migration had direction. It felt like within a month we had all moved to Reddit. I don’t see that happening here, so really this is uncharted territory. It’ll be fun to watch, that’s for sure.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          I predict it’ll be like the Twitter debacle at the end of lady year. It’ll lead to a big migration to the fediverse but many will cling onto the platform as it circles the drain. Maybe Reddit and/or Twitter will manage to pull a GameStop or maybe they’ll crash and burn like RadioShack

  • haganbmj@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • richie510@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m really confused by the chart on the site https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ I understand the dip annotated with the red arrow, but I do not understand the rebound annotated with the green arrow… With that many sites down, it should not be possible to rebound to normal levels…

    • Master@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      If you go to the site and view by new it’s just page after page of /r/askreddit. Tons of people posting to it with nowhere else to post. So that would explain some of the rebound but the graph is still odd that it rebounded to exactly where it should be if there was no blackout.

    • RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.comOP
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      1 year ago

      I could actually see engagement staying relatively the same since most people are probably popping Reddit open for a few minutes, maybe engaging, then moving on.

      What I do find odd is how consistent Posts per minute are over time. But it doesn’t dip or rise with comments. So now I’m wondering how automated a lot of posting is.

      • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Bots, all the bot posts. If you even check “All” for a bit even on Lemmy you will see the bots are moving here as well.

  • buried_alive@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Reddit itself seems to be completely down for me. I wonder if this is drawing a lot of attention and just overloading them, or tinfoil hat, they’re shutting off the servers to hide all the blackouts…

  • copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

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

    • charlytune@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I just had a quick look on the front page on mobile browser, not logged in, and the top 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ‘hot’ posts are about the blackout, and the ‘top’ post is a thank you from the Apollo app creator.

      (This is my first attempt at uploading a pic on here so 🤞)

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Was gonna share this here myself and then realized I still don’t now how to search Lemmy on either client I use. 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Weird. Seems there is a search button on the mobile interface, but it’s bugged out on my browser. Haven’t found it on the Jerboa app yet.

      • xilophor@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        there’s a button second to the left on the bottom tgat will open a page that you can search on Jerboa

        • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          I presume you mean the communities “list” button (there lines bulleted)? After clicking, it does have a search bar. However, that’s for searching communities rather that posts. Just tried it to find a posts about “super communities” and nothing is listed.

          This is the search feature via (beehaw) Lemmy: https://beehaw.org/search/q/super communities /type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

          P. S. The notification for replies also didn’t bring me here on click with Jerboa. I had to open back up my browser and click the notification there. 🤪

          It’s all good. It’s going to take Jerboa time to catch up, which I get.

          • xilophor@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Looks like if you hold the empty section of the content of the notification, you can pull up some context buttons that allow you to open the comment or reply. A bit weird but I’m guessing that’ll be changed sometime soon

            • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              It’s stuff like this that makes me almost want to start contributioning code. It would be a pretty quick fix, imo, to default visible and allow long press for hiding. But alas, after developing software all day everyday, I don’t tend to have the brain cells left to invest into side projects. Not to mention family and responsibilities and all that adulting, humaning stuff.

              • xilophor@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                Same; although it’s more of an issue of not having enough experience, as coding is more of a hobby for me - admittedly not one I’ve touched on in a while