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Thoughts on communities refusing to "go dark?"
(beehaw.org)
Out of curiosity before midnight, I've been lurking in incognito to see what subreddits appear and I saw WhitePeopleTwitter has a long post and is choosing to stay open.
WhitePeopleTwitter shows solidarity with the current protests on reddit against the fundamental changes to site architecture.
This moderated thread will remain open for everyone to comment in.
The comments that are in-favor of a real 'blackout' are being deleted.
I was even banned for commenting complicity. Interested to hear people's takes. Anyone else face a similar story or think it's justified?
I think it depends on the subreddit, honestly. For example, subreddits for mental health support (think r/depression, r/antidepressants, r/anxiety, etc.) should probably stay open since many would agree that supporting mental health is more important than protesting Reddit's API changes.
Then there are subs like r/sysadmin. On the one hand, it'd make sense for them to shutdown since they're a pretty tech-savvy group. On the other hand, since this sub is one of the first places sysadmins get information regarding security advisories, for example, it's arguably also important enough to stay open.
Meme subs should probably go dark, though.
It's a difficult discussion. Because if they stay open, reddit will probably keep having leverage over everyone because they have an enormous library of previous discussions. If no one bothers to switch, it will never change.
As a sysadmin, Google and ChatGPT tend to be good enough alternatives for now.
Yeah, at least when I'm trouble shooting something, I don't find myself turning to reddit as much as stackoverflow, gpt, etc. In my experience /r/sysadmin was mostly just notifications, and people complaining about their boss/coworkers