Best thing I read so far about this:

The official Reddit API goes dark in solidarity with current protests.

It's such a shame - I used Reddit for many years and found so many helpful people that helped me with many things - fixing my motorbike, improving my 3D prints or saving my plants. I hope we can establish similar kind of community in the Fediverse.

I guess that's what we get for trusting too much in a company - decentralised open source software is way to go. Even if somebody in this particular instance will go fucking insane and will decide to raise it to the ground, whatever, the project lives on and you can just go somewhere else.

Beehaw is getting hammered with traffic and is really slow today. I wonder if there's been a mass exodus to Lemmy...

I'm curious about why the most popular subreddits going private would stress out their servers. Wouldn't that reduce load?

They might be getting DDoSed.

Another possibility is that many of the closed subreddits link to a single thread in Save3rdpartyapps for an explanation. That page was returning gateway timeouts over the last few days. Since it has tens of thousands of comments, the sorting algorithm might be timing out from people visiting that particular page.

I think the servers don't know what to do when ads outnumber content 36 to 1

Can't have a black out if the site is not online points to temple

I wonder what is going to happen on Lemmy when we don't have reddit stories to rant about

Makes me wonder if it's on purpose to hide the blackout...

"What we had today wasn't a complete drop in traffic, engagement, and a resulting significant downturn in the number of served ads, caused by the major boycott we're in the middle of, guys, that was just a major outage. We still have great expectations for the IPO."

-- spez, probably

I'm still incredibly surprised that by taking closing communities you get your servers down. Usually it should be the other way around, but god dammit they screwed that infra somehow, somewhere.

this is the "and find out" stage

I wonder if this is coincidental, or if some people are taking it upon themselves to DDoS them or something. I hope it is the former as that would be absolutely hilarious, and can't be used as further justification for their continuing BS.

I burned down Memes of the dank and I moved here. Best thing that I did

Seems that the past couple of days some subreddits have been removing links that suggest migration to any alternatives such as Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon. Hopefully the exodus continues!!!!

The blackout is pretty dang short though, inconsequential I reckon

Lol and, I cannot stress this enough, lmao.

I would be hilarious if this were their shitty app ddosing their servers, because they drove all the subreddits away.

Oh no 😱

Anyway.

Reddit has entered the "Fuck round and find out" portion of their journey.