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80 points

That’s what Huffman was saying BEFORE the blackout. Now that 8476/8838 subreddits are currently dark, I wonder what he would say now? I don’t really see how Reddit recovers from this. It’s sad because I loved it and there’s nothing else like it (yet), but there would need to be some major changes taking place before a lot of people consider venturing back.

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54 points

There are 3.1 million subreddits.

That 8838 is the number of subs who pledged to protest in some capacity. A lot of them are big subreddits, but still. It’s not like they’ve cut off access to 90% of the site like some people think.

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52 points

Yeah but how many of those millions are ghost towns?, since a lot of the biggest subs are participating I’m more curious about how reddit will handle it, replacing the mods in every one of them? That’s a lot of man power, I hope whoever they put in charge isn’t an idiot that does it for free, and what’s more funny is that the best mod tools rely on the API and 3rd party access.

At the very least I expect a decline in quality content and spam, trolls, bots etc.

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25 points

My bet? AI.

If they have any kind of archive of past mod decisions then they can just dump all that into a neural net. And then they get to look all sexy in their upcoming IPO because they are using ⭐️⭐️⭐️ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE⭐️⭐️⭐️ like all the ⭐️⭐️⭐️SEXIEST⭐️⭐️⭐️ companies!!!1! No more of those annoying unpaid volunteers to get uppity any more!

I, for one, do not welcome our new AI moderation overlords, and will probably be done with Reddit if this happens. But I just know someone there has to be pushing for this.

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49 points

Over half my feed went dark. I was only getting posts from 4-5 subreddits, mostly news. That’s a big impact on a user.

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12 points

Yep. I was disappointed WTF didn’t participate.

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6 points

All the subreddits I subscribe to went dark except for 1. It’s a sub about this show called “From”. I’m slightly disappointed in them

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6 points

Losing RIF is what got me looking elsewhere.

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4 points

Yeah, but those subs contain the majority of redditor interaction. ~70k people on a sub is enough to put it into the top 5%. The top 1% subs are very likely responsible for 50%+ of all reddit posts. Losing just a handful of them is a big deal.

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47 points

Unfortunately in a few hours most of those subreddits will open back up and it’ll be business as normal. The ones that don’t open will be transferred over to new moderators and they’ll resume normal operation too.

Realistically, for the most part, not much will change for Reddit. A lot has changed for me and you, though. I’ve diversified my entertainment and don’t intend to lurk the same website for hours a day. I like Lemmy, and I like the people here but Reddit is too old and too encompassing to never visit it again.

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38 points

The problem is that there is a lot of great crowd-sourced knowledge on Reddit on everything from programming to which microwave oven I should buy. It’s going to take time to replace that, if it can be done.

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16 points

It can be done, it just won’t be done while Reddit is up. Eventually it will go away and that knowledge will have to be rediscovered and reposted elsewhere.

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9 points

I kind of want all the users to wipe their comments and burn it down like the library of Alexandria. Then spez can’t mine it for AI.

I hate losing the window into humanity, but it would be insanely satisfying to watch the fire burn.

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21 points

Couldn’t agree more on your second paragraph. I have lurked Reddit for years. This, however, is my first comment, and it’s on Lemmy…

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14 points

:D I’m honored to be the first person you reply to! Hope this Lemmy thing goes places.

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14 points

Yea, My sub is only going dark from the 12th - 14th, i already replicated the sub here. but its not Reddit 0_o I don’t think anything will ever replace reddit but give it sometime and after the exodus on the 30th this will be the only place to be. RedReader on Reddit is a good third party app for reddit (On Android) But its a learning curve but good. I heard it had immunity from the 3p app list cause of its accessibilty.

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12 points

People said the same about Digg

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4 points

wonder if we need some discord “lemmy migration office hours” to help users get started?

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1 point

Remember MySpace?

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4 points

Well it forced me to look for alternative. People won’t necessarily stick with Lemmy right now, but they know there are alternative, some of their name and what it looks like.

Personally I have looked at Lemmy and nine or kine (something like that) and I think it’s pretty close.

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1 point

Was it kbin.social?

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Piggy backing off this to remind people that after multiple reports of a child porn seller on reddit were either ignored or claimed to not to violate TOS, spez personally banned me for harassment after I asked him to intervene.

The CP seller was still active MONTHS later.

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23 points

I think Reddit will have a somewhat significant loss in users but it’ll endure, at least for the time being. Social media sites die slower now. But I’m happy I found alternatives because I just can’t see myself using their official app

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9 points

Absolutely agree with this. Twitter is still going strong, in part because the fediverse is “too hard.” Reddit isn’t going anywhere.

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12 points

in part because the fediverse is “too hard.”

I think this is probably a good thing, it might keep dumb people away.

As an aside, it’s starting to irritate me how often I see people complain the fediverse/threadiverse is too complex or too difficult to understand. I mean, you managed to understand that email accounts live on different servers, but you can’t apply that same mental logic to forums living on different servers?

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agree- reddit is a fucking big house that won’t burn down to the ground in a day. we’re should take comfort though in the fact that spez keri’s throwing fuel in the fire hastening it’s demise.

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1 point

Between this place, and https://squabbles.io/… Reddit is no longer relevant.

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9 points

As of today, he’s saying “the blackout will pass.” Doesn’t sound he cares at all, so I’m here now. Hello, new friend!

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I think that’s just the biggest ones.

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It’s not 8838 total, I’m pretty sure it’s the list of subs that said they’ll participate

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