Reddit Blackout Tracker
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Tracking the scale of the reddit blackout in real time, across the top 1500 most popular subreddits.
  • fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t used reddit for like 4 days which probably hasn’t happened since I signed up. I’m planning on staying here. The reddit of today isn’t like it was in 2011, it’s exploded in popularity. If the vast majority people truly cared about poor social media business practices Facebook Meta wouldn’t be around.

    I never expected the blackout to kill reddit or even for them backout of the API changes (especially after the spez AMA). But I will say I’m surprised at the influx of people to lemmy, I started on lemmy 5 days ago and even since then there’s been an explosion of content and discussion which has made it a viable alternative for me.

    I was a huge lurker on reddit because it seemed like my voice would never be heard or that it was probably already said. I’m trying to break that on lemmy and I encourage everyone else to as well.

  • marshoepial@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy has blown up within the past week. “Taking down reddit” was always a pipe dream, but now we have a real alternative with committed users. I’d call that a success.

    • artificial_unintelligence@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I also think lemmy now has more momentum. More users and content will follow, even if not in as massive groups. This new usage will help improve lemmy and next time Reddit fucks up, lemmy could be even better situated to handle the refugees and less will return. I joined lemmy when I left Twitter and was exploring the fediverse. But it wasn’t too active til now

  • Richie@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    While realistically I wasn’t expecting the death of Reddit, I had hoped something would happen, but, it’s now 2 days later and subs are open and it’s business as usual. Some gaming subreddits are even taking absolutely atrocious stands where they claim they HAVE to be open for the upcoming update to XYZ game. r/Games somehow thinks the various gaming showcases is justification for staying open, and r/Halo justified coming back online because Halo Infinite launches Season 4 next week. Funny enough, I was just perm banned from r/Halo because I called the mods out…

  • LondonPilot@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I agree. I’m watching /r/ModCoord and it seems quite a lot of subs are going dark indefinitely - but we need the biggest subs on board to make a difference.

    Advertisers are taking note, though, which is promising - especially if we can get a bit of steam behind the campaign to bring subs down indefinitely.

  • Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think we all know that these blackouts aren’t going to be the death of Reddit. The admins always had the power to in-blackout subreddits if they are deemed important enough. The best thing that came of this whole ordeal is the absolutely MASSIVE spike in Lemmy users (see https://the-federation.info/platform/73).

    As long as enough people stay here, we can continue to grow based on momentum, and we won’t even need to think about Reddit moving forward. At least, that’s the way I see it.