Reddit Blackout Tracker
blackout.photon-reddit.com
blackout.photon-reddit.com
https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/reddark for a webclient
Using data from https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/ which is a rewrite of the other reddark featured on the frontpage some hours ago, but way more reliable (source: https://gitea.arpa.li/rewby/reddark-remix)
So far aside from a couple random “we’re protesting” or whatever banners from the former main subreddits, my experience has remained unchanged, except that I’m seeing some welcome diversity in what’s at the top pages of r/all. Meaning: it’s not just r/pics or r/videos or whatever hitting the top, because they’ve neutered themselves, and now it’s pics and videos from slightly smaller subreddits that don’t normally hit.
So far I’m liking this change, though not engaging through Apollo will be a bit annoying in the future.
However while I’m not happy about the access being shut down, nor am I happy that Apollo dev took his ball and went home, I am fully supportive in spirit of the unintended consequences. Notably: lots more diversity on the front page (meaning less reporting dreck from the same oversized subreddits over and over), and maybe even a clamp down on the self-perceived sway of mods, a position that tends to attract the worst, most power-hungry people, and their “moderating” of literally hundreds of subreddits simultaneously.
My guess is that, as I’ve previously posted, this will go something like the last boycott of the chat feature. Main subreddits will shutter, new subreddits with similar names will pop up to fill the void with identical content. In any case, Reddit is under the VC gun at this point and I doubt they have a choice here, in my experience with large VC-backed companies.
That’s a very unfair characterization. It’s more like he was happy to allow everyone to keep playing with his ball, but suddenly the owner of the field wanted $20 million to allow it.
That phrase is mostly used when someone is being petty, which is absolutely not the case in this situation.
Unless you expect someone to go bankrupt just so their app can continue for one more month? They could either shut down now and refund everyone, or shut down in 2 months and go bankrupt trying pay the bill.
Its a long term goal, and few days of people protesting is not going to change their mind, few percent of userbase not being active before coming back is negligible impact at best.
Its not going to have any effect, unless significant /r/ communities start migrating to competition.
Same story goes with physical product boycotts. They come and go, people forget and move on to another outrage.
We'll see what happens on subsequent days.
Probably because the top 1% of the top 1000 subs accounts for the majority of the posts and comments. The corporate and/or state backed propaganda subs like news, worldnews, politics, movies, etc are still up and running.
The blackout is probably driving people to these available subs rather than forcing users to leave reddit altogether. Think about it, if you are a reddit addict, are you going to leave because a few subreddits went private? Of course not, you'll simply go to other subreddits.
After reddit, they for the most part all died. A more diverse web is a good thing.
If anyone else is interested in leaving Reddit I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...
Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
It's not my site, I saw it going around on Mastodon a few hours ago and was kinda surprised it hadn't hit HN yet.