“Ok guys, if we take the site down they can’t have a blackout: It’s brilliant!”
-Spez probably
We did it, reddit!
…wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
Lemmy for president!!
Who the fuck is Lemmy?
we are reddit in some ways
In all the ways that matter, the users and quality content are its heart. Take that away and it’s more like UnDeadit.
We’re more reddit than reddit
Big brain move
They’re likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They’ve gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They’re not about to start now, especially if they’re concerned about costs.
Not paying mods gave them an out to not be a publisher.
If your company is the one doing the moderation, then you become responsible for what is on your website, and that means spez would have to get rid of the Nazis :(.
Replacing them all with automod
u/Spez-autoGPT joined to the thread.
Hopefully they culled his comments from before roughly 2014 or they’re gonna have a whole new problem on their hands.
Subreddit mods win. Fatality.
What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)
Readdit, never even heard it
THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN
Aggressive techno noises
Strong Bad at his finest
The Cheat is grounded!
how long was it? i heard about it earlier but when i checked it worked fine
About an hour.
Webpage is still down for me - ironically Boost for Reddit seems to work fine
While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying “report created”. I didn’t press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. 😖
same thing happened to me on another post! Not sure what I clicked…
Reddit free tier usage reached
drink a verification can of {product placement} to continue
lmao, its not like the site is being overloaded right now as half the site is private, they are doing this shit on purpose
LMFAOIt’s funny that it works normally on Apollo for me 😎
It’s back up again… DANG!
Edit: And DOWN again lmao
Is it possible someone launched a DDoS attack against Reddit?
Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now
Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol’ death hug right now
Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.
If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesn’t typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I’m pretty impressed with it so far! I’d love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.
