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Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
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Glad to see so many popular subreddits hopping on board. I honestly don't know what kind of actual impact it will have.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it primarily raises awareness among users as to why the subreddts are going dark, mainly that they will now struggle to automate their moderation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It might lead to some users going to different sites like Lemmy, Mastodon, or Kbin. I've seen them recommended in some Reddit threads about subs going dark. Hopefully communities will rebuild outside of Reddit.