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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com to c/technology@beehaw.org

Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

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[-] StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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....

[-] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’ve continued to tell people: This won’t kill Reddit in the sense of outright turning it into a ghost town. If your only goal is to make Reddit collapse overnight, you’re going to be disappointed. The quality content that many people here enjoy is not what makes up the frontpage of r/all or what a huge amount of passive users consume. Reddit has more than enough low quality trash to backfill the frontpage and keep users occupied.

Anybody migrating should focus on porting quality content. Let reddit live long and be a dumping ground.

[-] strainedl0ve@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I see this less as a damage to Reddit, and more as an opportunity to diversify, make people aware of the threat of centralised corporate-run platforms, and to build the federated internet alternatives a bit more, to give them momentum.

[-] ultraHQ@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yep! Although it is too bad that when you sesrch for reddit alternstives, that lemmy doesn't come up.

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