• @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    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.

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    Wow, you can’t even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death…

    • @[email protected]
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      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…

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            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.

      • _haha_oh_wow_
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        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.

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            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.

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              Oh! I just figured that out – try tapping-and-holding for a second. Some menu options should come up then.

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                Thanks I’ll give that a try. Upvote/downvote/reply should all just appear by default though IMO

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              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.

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                I only seem to be having that problem with Jeroba. In the browser it seems to work fine with the lemmies I’ve tried

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                  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?

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    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!

  • @[email protected]
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    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” 😅

  • Drew Got No Clue
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    The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.

    Nevermind, just seen the note—it’s because of too much traffic.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve read about selling the account, does anyone have more information? My account is 14 years old, it might be worth something.

      • @[email protected]
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        How much Karma? Older accounts seem to sell for more on Ebay. It might take longer though. Search “Reddit” on ebay and you will see some listings. If you go to completed and then sold, you can see some accounts that recently sold. There was an 11 year account I was looking at the other day that sold for $70

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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      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.

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        What’s Tilde? Tried looking it up but all that comes up is a software firm and a translator app.

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          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.)

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Then it’s useless. We need Fediverse alternatives not to keep jumping between proprietary monoliths that will be enshittified once people are lured in

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    Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I’ve also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.

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    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.

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    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”.

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      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)

      • Matt
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        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.