Content deleted by creator due to lemmy.ml tolerating brigades from hexbear
It was in the 500-600 range a few hours ago. It’s really happening
My hot take: Going dark won’t change anything, but it’s still a nice middle finger.
Following June 30 is when reddit will really change, when mods and influential users leave the site due to losing support for 3PA
Reddit will continue to be propped up like Weekend At Bernie’s after that, much like the sites of the past like Digg and MySpace
Reddit will gradually lose all cred and will be considered just as sketchy as any other social media
Reddit doesn’t have to close in order for this blackout to be successful.
Myspace is still alive but not relevant.
I think the best-case scenerio is that the blackout, combined with 3rd party apps shutting down will cause a partial migration to fediverse-based solutions.
As long as the communities get a kickstart then it will change the companies trajectory.
I’m hoping it’ll just kinda fracture people into their preferred online homebases, opening up opportunities to fool around everywhere.
Reddit gradually went from “The Front Page of the Internet” to “Basically the Entire Internet” for a lot of us and it doesn’t need to remain that way.
Going dark won’t change anything,
In the /r/apollodev post there is a section with all the info of the latest call they had before shit hit the fan.
In that, Reddit said that “[Reddit] is open to discussion, if moderators promise to keep subreddits open”, so personally, I don’t think it won’t change anything.
As for what, we have yet to see.
This reminds me so much of the mistake digg made that made me and so many people move over to reddit.
over 6000 / 7000 so far, keeps increasing. Also, there are several more communities that are locked rather than private that arent being tracked. fuck spez.
I guess that is one way to keep the site “up”
https://reddark-digitalocean-7lhfr.ondigitalocean.app/
Someone made a fork of the reddark site. This currently works.
