Technology

Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.

What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.

It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users' expense.

I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.

Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives

I don’t know about you, but streaming the “Darkening” is like the best thing ever. Just reading all the comments as viewers cheer on each subreddit.

When r/trees wend private I was thinking “shit just got real.”

Anyway, I suggest watching the stream, if just for the cameraderie.

This is just beautiful to watch. For once reddit comes together to spite... reddit.

It's sad though I truly enjoyed Reddit like obviously many here, but also to be fair I've also felt like the quality of posts and comments overall degraded and the whole thing turned into a big meme factory where only funny images with text and tiktok reposts really were uploaded.

The whole thing started going downhills as soon as the first tiktok reposts started flooding in to be fairly honest. Let's please not let this happen much here, unless of course in dedicated communities for that because everything has a place.

Also, this is my first ever post on Lemmy, hi 👋

Wow /r/nba decided to go dark. So unexpected and huge respect to the mods there. Really huge one with the NBA finals going on too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230612030017/https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1476rje/team_and_community_rnba_is_participating_in_the/

"6236/7265 subreddits are currently dark."

85.83%

That's a pretty good response from the subs.

Looks like it got the hug of death.

The level of unity has been awesome. At first I thought this might only really spread through tech minded subreddits, but it really caught on broadly.

Is the 5,563 on the side the total number of subreddits!? That would mean 1/5 of all subreddits are now private. :O

This one has a pretty nice look with a list of all 6000 participating subreddits and fading in in real-time when a subreddit goes dark:

https://reddark.untone.uk/

so many have gone dark already, this is impressive.

There's a handful of NSFW, but I'm surprised their isn't more since they are getting hit harder than anyone else.

There's something so therapeutic about having Reddark open in a tab in the background - every time I hear the ding, a little voice in my head cheers. Interesting times, folks.

I don't see myself going back to Reddit if they keep those subs closed down. However I do believe that if this "strike" goes on for longer than a week or so, the admins will forcefully replace each closed subreddit mods to make them live again.

Man, it's so satisfying to watch all of these subreddits switch to green. I really wish more of them committed to an indefinite shutdown though.

This has been super interesting. I’ve never seen communities listed in this manner. I’d be interested in this kind of sort for other services as well.

Really hoping to see major players go dark soon and wishing they would stay that way, like r/videos plans to. Oh, what the world would be like if corporations actually cared about the people they profit from.

Oh god here it comes. So long and thanks for all the fish.

500 error

Looks like it got hugged

The site has been overloaded, so now they are streaming it on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

blackout.photon-reddit.com

Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging....

Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿

I found a different one, posted by the author on the DataIsBeautiful subreddit: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Here's a Twitch stream based upon your link, which is based upon r/Modcoord .

Also a good opportunity to back it up everyone with just not visiting their site. I've added 127.0.0.1 reddit.com old.reddit.com www.reddit.com mod.reddit.com i.reddit.com to my hosts file so I don't accidentally follow a link to Reddit (I think they have a lot more subdomains, so the hosts file based approach isn't perfect, but hopefully good enough for a quick solution).

I do hope the ones going dark migrate here and start over.

Nice to see the subreddits listed by subs. Reddit can't ignore this... interested to see how they respond. I'm sure it will be some half baked knee jerk reaction that will get the community even more against them.

R/SquaredCircle just went dark. They weren't even on the list as far as I saw.

"The website is temporarily down." ironic lol

It's going to be satisfying watching them slowly tick green.

This is awesome. We all need to stick together on this one