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There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it's kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the website if you want to see the updates live without the twitch stream: https://reddark.untone.uk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That chat stream hurt my eyes. Just hit 2500.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At 2044 now but bi_irl having trouble deciding

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

As is tradition

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Those subs are going down faster than spez's credibility

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super impressed with the initiative. Let’s see how spez reacts to it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My expectation is that if any of the higher traffic subs hold the line for more than a few days, the greedy little pig boy will replace the mods with loyalists and force them open.

I'm honestly grateful in a way. It's forced me to look very seriously at the fediverse apps such as Lemmy and I'm really liking the model more than putting all of our eggs in one basket.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Word man. If we can pull this off I really think it's a better future for social media in general.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. As much as I am saddened to lose out on some of the communities from reddit, I think this is the right direction. In time the communities will come back together and we will have been better off decentralizing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is great, thank you for the info and evening entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

About 15 minutes to go for the 'Official' start and it's already over 2100.

Yowsers Redddit, you dun goofed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2102/6001 so far.

RIP /r/IllegallySmolCats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We really need an instance that only has communities made from the cat subs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anybody know what is Reddit's userbase size? It's difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

it's a bad judge IMO since people are subbed to multiple places and can be counted multiple times

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.

As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed “ELI5” also is on the list… that’s a huge one!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won't have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.

reddit likely did research beforehand, and thought that enough new users since 2017 wouldn't care, because it's quite clear they don't care about losing their older userbase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen users there mocking the protest. Even outrightly being hostile to individual users who post support. And when I look at their profiles I see that they are mostly 3 or 4-year-old accounts.

It seems that you are right. The users who came into Reddit accompanying its decline, simply do not care and are part of the mindless shitposters who partially ruined the site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless 'active' means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s going so fast I can’t keep up. You hate to see it.

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