Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

  • CaptainStrider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, whatever Reddit does at this point doesn’t matter. Lemmy works decently and for all else, why not try using something different? The internet is a bigger place than it seems. I prefer touching grass to wasting any more time thinking about Reddit.

    • sorrowstouchEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I’m over the internet being Reddit Twitter Facebook YouTube. Since avoiding Reddit, deleting Facebook and hating twitter I’m actually visiting websites again.

      • Xer0
        English
        3·
        1 year ago

        I made a community here called oldweb to specifically share interesting or old style websites. There’s a am absolute fucking TON of quirky websites out there. The 90s and early 2000s didn’t go anywhere, web search just got awful.

        • sorrowstouchEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yes! This is exactly what I want to pass the time, I miss the days of enter pages with visitor counters, little under construction banners, spinning skull GIFs, guest books and limp bizkit Vs slipknot fan pages haha

    • bmoney@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      ya im kinda there with you

      lemmy may be inconvenient or kinda weird imo, but who cares. reddit is lame with them shutting down RiF so fuck em, i could do with less CoNtEnT i guess.

      plus it is kinda fun to figure it out. havent had something like this on the net in a while for myself. forgot that sometimes being a netizen is work

    • XLRVEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, Lemmy and the Fediverse is cool, the thing I will miss the most will be the 3rd party apps I used, I hope some of them will work with Lemmy soon, some devs showed an interest about it.