Reddit is down : tech

[+] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering if it's their own shitty app trying to fetch subreddits that have gone dark.

[-] mdwalters@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

just like twitter just before

[-] foxy@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

This appears to be the case

[-] Milez_W@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

I tried opening a new account called spezzedout to exclusively troll subreddits with no moderation after the blackout but I accidentally decided to check out a sub I was banned from and Spezzedout was permanently suspended and recieved 3 days suspension on my primary. Thank goodness, my primary has 14.4K and it'd be a shame to lose that much (Not like it is gonna matter after the blackout)

[-] Spitfire@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

Good, let it die.

[-] Lockely@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddit-says-protesting-communities-crashed-the-site/ar-AA1csfST?ocid=msedgntphd

Apparently they're claiming the blackout itself is causing the site to go down. Lol.

[-] pipes@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

seems to be working now for me, unfortunately

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

The damage was done... there's a ton of news stories about the outage, all covering the blackout protest.

There was some speculation in other communities that it was an intentional move on Reddit's part either to try to hide the protest (so they can say the drop in user activity was due to the outage instead), or that they were using the time to do something to counter the protest, but if that's the case, the news coverage is increasing the reach of the protest beyond what it might otherwise have had.

[-] radostin04@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, trying to hide the protest by taking even more of the platform down is stupid. I really hope that this stuff leads to Reddit's user numbers dropping permanentally, but I doubt it as it seems like most subreddit only closed for 2 days.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe the intention is that the 2-day protest is a warning shot, and on 6/30 when the API changes take effect, the plan is for some / most of these subs to close permanently, if the decision goes through.

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