There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.

  • Crow of Minerva@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won’t have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public

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      1 year ago

      I’m not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.

      reddit likely did research beforehand, and thought that enough new users since 2017 wouldn’t care, because it’s quite clear they don’t care about losing their older userbase.

      • Liempong_pagong@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I’ve seen users there mocking the protest. Even outrightly being hostile to individual users who post support. And when I look at their profiles I see that they are mostly 3 or 4-year-old accounts.

        It seems that you are right. The users who came into Reddit accompanying its decline, simply do not care and are part of the mindless shitposters who partially ruined the site.