Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I’m thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I’m good with it.
I’ve taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we’ll see what happens
Personally I don’t think I’m going back now. Have your plans changed?
Would be nice to see a graph over time
I’m pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?
Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.
in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community
subreddit named after Nazi propaganda has bootlicker mods, wow, what a surprise
Nazi propaganda
Wat
“master race”
But that comes from a joke from a Witcher 1 review. How can you compare one with the other?
I guess I’m out of the loop. When I hear master race I think of white supremacy, not a Witcher 1 review
Why assume the worst?
“subreddit named after Nazi propaganda”
Please.
r/PCHerrenrasse must have been taken.
Wow, you can’t even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death…
Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.
Same
Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren’t interrupted too much…
I can open r/ukraine on RIF. 3rd party apps still work.
Most will shut down on June 30 when reddit is overcharging to use the api, essentially to force them out and make you use their app with tracking and advertising.
Yeah, that’s why I’m here. Ironic that the current status is that the site is down but 3rd party apps work…
Site seems to be back up now.
Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I’ve also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.
8 years, 11 months.
I’m going dark in solidarity. 100 minutes to go in my time zone.
Goodbye, u/mutisi0n. Goodbye, Reddit. It’s been real.
The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I’m pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.
If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it’s shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.
What’s Tilde? Tried looking it up but all that comes up is a software firm and a translator app.
Tilde is a Reddit wannabe. It’s the same kind of centralized, monolithic site that Reddit is, but its management hasn’t gone full asshole (yet.)
Then it’s useless. We need Fediverse alternatives not to keep jumping between proprietary monoliths that will be enshittified once people are lured in
Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.
At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.
The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.
Nevermind, just seen the note—it’s because of too much traffic.
I decided to check the front page (as in /r/popular, what people see by default) out of morbid curiosity since most of Reddit has gone dark now, and honestly it’s like nothing has changed for the casual user.
The biggest subs with the most traffic haven’t gone dark at all, and all the same posts and popular stuff still fill the front page, so for many people I suspect they’re not even going to feel this, but maybe it’s a bit too premature to be making this conclusion, let’s see what happens.
EDIT: I was somewhat premature with this post, even /r/popular is pretty barren as things move nowhere near as fast. That being said, it’s disappointing to see how much is still open, and how some subreddits (such as /r/pcmasterrace) are clearly missing the point by allowing “certain posts”.
IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from “not too nice” communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)
I suspect curated lists will definitely feel a huge impact, but if I had to guess (and I may be wrong), most traffic comes from browsing the default front page (/r/popular). There isn’t quite as much content, but there’s still definitely a lot of the same stuff still around.
I could just be too early of course, as many are still in the process of shutting down and people haven’t gotten off Reddit yet.
There’s also a Twitch stream linked at the top of the page. Join us in sitting around, watching, and chatting as the proverbial shit hits the fan!
if the site won’t load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247
Love this website, well done Dev/s
4909 dark atm, sad to see it slowly coming down. Hold!! Hold!!
Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn’t loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.
RIF still works lol.
That probably won’t last given Spez’s bullshit, but I gotta say, Lemmy is looking pretty promising. The Jeroba mobile app is a little underwhelming though, voting and replying to comments is a hassle. Maybe the RIF dev will make a Lemmy app or help improve Jeroba.
The RedReader Dev had said he’s looking to include Lemmy.
Never tried that one either, I usually used RiF. Is that on Android?
Yep. You can get it on FDroid package manager or the Google Play Store.
Awesome, thanks!
How is it a hassle? It seems perfect-enough to me.
At least on Android, I can’t respond to or vote on responses that show up in my inbox. Clicking on the message itself does nothing instead of taking me to the message. The UI definitely needs improvements in usability but it’s still very much in development as far as I could tell.
Oh! I just figured that out – try tapping-and-holding for a second. Some menu options should come up then.
Thanks I’ll give that a try. Upvote/downvote/reply should all just appear by default though IMO
Miner’s android, I am using jerboa, and they are appearing automatically for me.
I think it’s having trouble keeping up with the rush of users. I’ll admit though it’s pretty frustrating that my upvotes don’t register. I get “timeout” after a few seconds.
I only seem to be having that problem with Jeroba. In the browser it seems to work fine with the lemmies I’ve tried
At first it was both, couldn’t upvote on the browser or Jerboa. Since this afternoon though I haven’t been getting a timeout error on Jerboa.
Edit: nevermind it’s happening again. Maybe it’s happening due to server load?
I feel like each time a sub goes private there should be a custom final message or something. Like a last post saying “Goodnight and good luck” 😅
