"Ok guys, if we take the site down they can't have a blackout: It's brilliant!"
-Spez probably
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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...wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
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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.
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That would not surprise me in the least.
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lmao!
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I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.
No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.
The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.
I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don't know me as well as they could. Also if I'm not interested they aren't distracting
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Same here. I've been using old.reddit with RES and apollo for so long that I forgot reddit even had ads until I tried the official app.
Same, RiF + old. FTW TBH, really liking Lemmy β€οΈ
for years companies have been trying for βtargeted adsβ but in rare occasions I see ads, theyβre terribly off the mark, like you have mentioned
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Yeah. I don't mind ads if I'm getting content for free, but at least know your audience. I feel like especially the hegetsus spam was wildly misplaced on Reddit.
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Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now
Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol' death hug right now
Will save this when there's c/AngryUpvote opens lol
THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN
Aggressive techno noises
The Cheat is grounded!
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I think it's ridiculous that it's actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"
Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
Sorry, rewriting it, buttons are a bit wonky tonight.
They're removing NSFW content from the API, and someone yesterday posted about a new lemmy server dedicate to NSFW, if they can take it away from reddit, it will die for sure, tho it's probably what they want, investors apparently don't like that kind of content.
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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.
I hope the major subs stay dark. The only thing keeping reddit afloat is moderators. Without tools the mods would need full time paid positions which is never going to happen. I'd like to see them all burn. Its become a shit show of adds and bots now anyway. Good riddance. I wish someone would incorporate freenets web of trust system to some type of decentralized app like this.
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βA significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and weβve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,β spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.
So... According to Reddit the blackout is the culprit, I guess?
So either it's just an outage and they're faulting the blackout, or the blackout is actually the culprit. Either way I hope this works. However, I'm still not going back to Reddit even if they fix and reverse everything.
Do not attribute to malice what can easily be explained by idiocy. It is entirely plausible that their algorithm couldn't handle the most popular subreddits going dark all at once. They likely hard-relegated so many other subs that would appear on r/popular or r/all to lower priority and thus when the higher priority subs disappeared, it couldn't change priorities and cause the crash.
I wonder if it's bots or something trying to access the now dark subreddits. Essentially causing a DDOS.
well if i made a bot, hmm, yeah that could cause it lol. Like if i tell it "go in every 30 minutes & steal the top 20 posts", and it's down, i'd just say "retry till u get it, idc if u DoS that shit" and well if many ppl do it, it's a free DDoS courtesy of robotland
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Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Reddit hides partial blackout by going full blackout lmao
Sounds silly, but I'm guessing they don't want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
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u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo's dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don't give a spez(fuck) about what's going on with the protests.
But... if this is on purpose...
Strange decision to say the least.
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i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn't prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior π
its a reddit psyop so you go and check and bump the numbers up. stay woke.
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This was beautiful and totally unsurprising.
don't worry they will complain ApolloApp for this anyway
"It was u/christianselig's fault for not paying us $20 million uwu"
Some possibilities:
- Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
- Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
- The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
- Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.
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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 doesnβt typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
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