Also /r/technology and /r/programming, they went dark but only after lot’s of pressure from all sides just a few hours ago. I’ve also heard that the CEO spez himself is a mod of /r/programming, so that sub going dark means there is a lot of discontent.

Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.

At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.

I don’t think there is any cool down period, same thing happened when I tried to sign up on the lemmy programmers community earlier today. The thing is federation is far more complicated when you try to implement in code than what it appears. On top of that, when you try to impose generic standards to also accommodate Mastodon in the same network, the complexity goes up even several notches! It might take a while for all the bugs to get fixed and fediverse to become stable.

What’s the correlation with the IPO? Are they somehow pressurized so that IPO entry means they must get rid of third party integration and similar other feature changes?