It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

  • HamartiogonicEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    As far as I’m concerned, Reddit just died today. It’s game over now. Time to start over somewhere else.

    • GrindingGearsEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Judging by the amount of activity on here versus even yesterday, I suspect you are right.

      • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Just came from reddit after 12 years. Deleted all my comments and then my account.

        Hoping Lemmy can continue to grow and doesn’t grow stale and stagnate. I’m really digging the whole Fediverse thing. Deleted my Twitter after Elon bought it and joined a Mastodon instance as well.

        If we can realize this trend of decentralized social networks it would be huge.

        • HamartiogonicEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Personally, I believe that keeping the social media platforms federated is the way to go in the long term.

          • zeldis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Honestly, this does seem like the better way to go. Back in the myspace days, we probably should have gone down this route instead of jumping ship to facebook. It would have been really cool to see how things would have turned out if it had been federated between universities from the get-go

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t reddit will go away for a while. It’s almost too big to fail. The large reddit run subs are still live and active. Users who don’t sub to any subs that went dark may not even know anything happened. I have to imagine reddit knew they would lose users of 3rd party apps so it likely isn’t a large portion of where they make money. I think there will probably be a decline in content for a short time, then we will see new subs emerge with people who don’t care about the API lock down, ads, Chinese investors, bots, and reposts.

      • HamartiogonicEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yep. My guess is that there’s going to be so much karma farming bots and reposts, that it’s going to be absolutely wild.

      • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        then we will see new subs emerge with people who don’t care about the API lock down, ads, Chinese investors, bots, and reposts.

        Let’s regard reddit as a honeypot to keep this crowd away from lemmy :]