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I tallied (roughly) the number of subscriber accounts, across all these reddits. It's around 1 billion. Obviously, it's not conservative as many will have subscribed to multiple. But, I see MAU (monthly active users) is about 1b. So, this is huge.

EDIT: Seems the source for MAU I found was way high, making this potentially even bigger. Every other source I've found is 400-500m range for MAU on reddit (as another pointed out).

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FWIW, as of 2021, Reddit had around 50 million DAUs and 450 million MAUs.

Some portion of users will also just fall back to visiting other subreddits on June 12.

> Some portion of users will also just fall back to visiting other subreddits on June 12.

It doesn't seem like there are many subreddits not participating in the blackout.

According to the current count, less than 2% of subreddits are going dark.

Around half of the top 250 are participating atm https://save3rdpartyapps.com/ which I think gives a better idea of how big it is. Despite that, I think it won't be enough to change anything. Maybe if we got all top 250 subs to participate and extended the protest to being indefinitely.

Less than 2% of subreddits but what percentage of total activity?

Not total activity, but I think half of the top 250 subreddits participating in the protest gives a good idea https://save3rdpartyapps.com/

That doesn’t matter for the question of whether users will fall back to visiting other subreddits.

So why did you bring it up?

I brought up the percentage of subreddits, which does matter, because it determines how many subreddits remain to fall back to. The activity level of the subreddits who are blacking out, however, doesn’t matter for that, and it was pb7 who brought that up, not me.

If I frequent /r/financialindependence, I’m not going to suddenly switch over to /r/guineapigs, I’ll just go do something else with my time.

A portion of users will do exactly that, because Reddit is just a way for them to pass some time.

Around half of the top 250 aren't participating atm https://save3rdpartyapps.com/

Most of the private ones were private already, and whether the other ones will follow through or not remains to be seen.

I did wonder, are these all subreddits or just the ones announcing they will be going dark? It does seem like a lot of ones will be turning off.

I got around 1.5b, not filtering for one user subbed to multiple subreddits.

I stopped counting at lower subbed communities (below 100k IIRC), seeing diminishing returns. If they all add up that much it's interesting, as many of those communities are very niche, so may have a higher weight of unique subs.

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