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Reddit already looks different for me (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by phase_change@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@beehaw.org
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It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

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[–] liontigerwings@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Most people will go back to reddit in two day. I just hope the whole ordeal seeds Lemmy with enough of a community to grow so one day, it will have feature parity with reddit and an actual community. This probably won't be a Digg like migration, but maybe it's the beginning of a myspace to Facebook like migration.

Digg seems like it went down overnight lol.

[–] Vinnyboiler@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sowing the seeds is what I hope happens. I'm not moderator material, I don't normally post content and I normally prefer to lurk. Yet I'm going out my way to cultivate a successful migration so the real guys who know what they are doing can take over and allow me to once again doom-scroll lol.

[–] AfroThundr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel called out lmao. I've been more active on fediverse apps in the last week than I was on normal social networks in the last year.

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