• LvxferreM
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    Fun thing to do: open Reddark, enable sound, and leave it open. It’s like preparing popcorn - you want to hear the noise to speed up, then you check it when it slows down, hoping that it’s ready.

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    The irony that they’re most likely using the Reddit API to show how many subs are going dark in real time…

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    That’s a lot. All my subs have gone private. Mad respect. Miss them though. The content that is. Fuck reddit. Lemmy ftw

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    This is my first time watching an online community I’m part of disintegrate in such a violent way. It’s surreal. And the reddark list showed some subs I didn’t know existed, but wish I had. Oh well.

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      Think of it like that gif of a worm blasting off into gametes. Many more worms will result as of this.

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        Yeah I know that. It’s still sad to watch it crumble for such stupid reasons (like spez).

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    Hey. I’m seeing the TOTAL reddits number go up.

    Why’s it going up? Are there really 600 new subreddits created in one day?

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      Someone on the Twitch stream was saying it was 50. That was … an hour ago? Two?

      Is there chicanery? How many new subs are created per hour on a normal day?

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        That’s the question. 5 hours ago it was only x/6001 subs dark. Now it’s

        5497 out of 7047

        So that’s like 1046 new subs in ~5 hours, as reported by Reddark.

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    Given that this is a counter, I’m loving it far more than I expected. I purged my history and I’m all in on Lemmy.

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      I must admit I did not expect such a wide turnout for the blackout. There’s absolutely no way something this massive goes unnoticed by investors, although I doubt it will cause anyone to change course. Hell, even if they do change course I’m fucking done with Reddit.

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        Hopefully, at least it shows everyone that Reddit is nothing without the communities formed by their users, and how important accessible third-party API access is to Redditors who genuinely care about the website.

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    So, can I ask, what are the measurable metrics here for the protest.

    Is there any way people can see damage done, etc? See a drop in traffic to reddit, for example? Because unless reddit publicises all this info, won’t we just be in the dark as to whether it had any affect at all?

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      Less ad money is the big one, but no reddit won’t publish that. So it’s a stab in the dark.