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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

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[–] uthredii@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

r/programming is private even though I think a lot of the mods were reddit employees, I think even u/spez. what is going on lol

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[–] daniel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Would love to see a list of large subreddits that aren't participating and the statements (if any) they put out explaining why.

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[–] wandy_dev@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This morning I deleted all my posts, comments, and accounts on the aliensite. 4 accounts total, and over 10 years of data. I hope others will do the same. At least for the sake of the app devs. They deserve better.

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[–] cecirdr@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I've been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.

Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn't go dark, but those wouldn't be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what's up?

Oh...thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!

[–] ngwoo@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I know I've instinctively opened Sync a couple times already. I assume a lot of people who use reddit are lurkers as well, who don't really pay any attention to the quality of the homepage and will just browse like nothing changed.

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[–] l0st_scr1b3@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a fantastic idea, thank you.

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