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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I've been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.
Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn't go dark, but those wouldn't be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what's up?
Oh...thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!
Reddit still pulls things to r/all, even if what's there is some abandoned sub. It's why some subs went restricted instead of private, so they can make posts about the protest and the issue behind it that will still be surfaced.
A lot of newer users don't bother going past r/all, so there's going to be some activity constantly since not everyone knows what's going on.
Hell, I made three posts about it all on r/edc, and I'm still getting people asking why they can't post. I'm not moderating during the two day blackout at all, but I get the notifications.
Which is fine. The protest has never been about getting people to stop using reddit. It's about the moderators standing up and making the point that it's the users and mods that made reddit worth anything to begin with. And it was. Reddit side? The admins that handled day to day activity helped a ton when they could, but reddit beyond that was just servers and software. Without content, that's useless.
First of all, thanks for moderating r/edc as that is one of my favorite subs. 2nd question - are there plans for setting up an equivalent over here? I have seen a lot of new “magazines” on K-bin the last few days, but it would be great to get sanctioned, equivalent subs over here and then more Reddit regulars could simply “move on over”. Maybe that is happening, and I just don’t know how to fine it? Some instances, like Beehaw, are restrictive in creating new communities, not sure what the process is for doing that in those locations.
Yup, we're set up over at https://sopuli.xyz/c/edc
It's getting some okay activity so far :)
It looks like the activity is flattening now. I guess the stale content is starting to have an effect.
I know I've instinctively opened Sync a couple times already. I assume a lot of people who use reddit are lurkers as well, who don't really pay any attention to the quality of the homepage and will just browse like nothing changed.
I am really going to miss Sync most of all from this whole debacle. LJ has commented that he's toying with the idea of porting it over to Lemmy but I would be surprised if he's able to do it all that smoothly. Still, I can dream.
LJ is the GOAT for sure, I remember loading the redditsync test beta when I had the original HTC with a trackball (it's lived in the same spot on every device ever since then to this day). I hope he does focus on Lemmy - I'd pay for his efforts all over again. Still, despite the minor inconveniences I'm finding adopting this new set of servers and building out my personalized feeds I'm finding the Jerboa app a similar enough reading experience that it's not jarring.
The most recent update for Jerboa definitely made it look less awful, and it works alright. I miss the customization of Sync for sure, though. I went back and looked and it looks like I purchased the ad removal back in 2014, so I've been using it for close to 10 years now.