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.

  • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
    66·
    2 years ago

    A weird side-effect of Lemmy being 1000x smaller than Reddit is that I lurk less and contribute more. So there’s that!

    • Spacemanspliff@midwest.socialEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      It feels much more like reddit did during the digg migration. Every thing still feels like you’re interacting with real people and a much smaller community.

      • the_inebriati@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 years ago

        I first started browsing reddit in late 2011 and even by then it felt a little like I was arriving at a party that had already been going a while and people had their in-jokes and cliques (to a way lesser extent than today).

        In the best possible way, Lemmy/kbin feels a lot like we all arrived early and the host is still running around trying to make sure everything’s ready.

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Lol true. As it is right now out comments aren’t just a piss in the ocean. I prefer smaller communities and am not sure how I got sucked up into reddit considering I can just get that content from imgur and if I can’t find it here… to think I left imgur for reddit because their app was garbage but it’s nothing compared to the reddit app. And at least blocking ads makes the imgur app usable lol… Anyway, I like this way better lol.

    • BeardedGuy@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Completely agree! I think I’ve made more comments here in the last twelve hours than I made on reddit within the last two years! I love chatting with you all!

        • Kwakigra@beehaw.orgEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          I’m surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but Reddit can be pretty hostile almost everywhere other than small niche subs with consistent communities. Before posting a comment, I would always have to consider whether I was willing to fight about it with someone likely to snidely dismiss it through the most paper-thin lazy rhetoric. Sometimes the answer would be yes but too often it would be no.

          • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
            12·
            2 years ago

            Oh for sure. There have been countless occasions where I’ve written out a reply, only to hit Cancel while telling myself “Nope, its just not worth it”.

            • Silviecat44@vlemmy.netEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              Honestly just a good practice to have anywhere, thinking about what you say before you say it.

              • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
                4·
                2 years ago

                I agree with that! Sometimes I feel like I overthink it, if anything. I try to make it a principal of mine to have some sort of logical process that determined anything I write/say (even if said logic doesn’t make sense to everyone at first glance).

                Works great in some cases, and not so much in others… but that’s a whole other spiel to go over more later on haha.

          • idle@158436977.xyzEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Oh man so much this. I felt like I could never post a comment without getting into an argument with someone about it.

        • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
          10·
          2 years ago

          For me it’s the same reason I’m more likely to contribute in smaller subreddits and that is noise.

          Kind of pointless in replying to something that has been active for 8 hours and has 2,000+ posts. And god help you if you sorted by rising and got in early then you get 100 of the same reply or irrelevant stuff latching onto your comment for visibility.

          Even if you wanted to discuss on larger subreddits the content of comments would be people falling and tripping overthemselves to make the same low effort shitty joke.

          • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Great point. There’s just SO MUCH content on Reddit, that I end up just lurking and reading.

            Its basically tiktok but text.

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I feel the same way. I think it’s a little less intimidating as most postshave less comments so I feel like I’ll be lost in the crowd less. I also feel like if we want to make lemmy the reddit replacement we have to use it so other people thinking of switching will see that it is active.

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        It’s more the latter for me. Lemmy (and navigating the fediverse) is a UX disaster for normal folk, so contributing content is the best thing I can do to make up for it haha

    • instamat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I actually… recognize you! Lol. I never got that familiar with other users on reddit

    • Inspectigator@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Same. I made a post to my local subreddit, and felt that hesitation creep in. I don’t get so much on Lemmy. Also, I had to laugh because it was immediately downvoted into oblivion.