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Why Reddit’s Blind Community went dark for the first time in its history (www.ncbi.ie)
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by David Redmond Reddit is a platform used by millions to connect with like-minded people each day. In recent weeks though there’s been controversy on the platform, resulting in a massive protest where many subreddits went dark. One of the subs protesting was r/Blind which went offline for the first time in its ten-year history

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[-] DBT@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

“Reddit’s blind community went dark for the first time in its history.”

I mean… never mind let me stop.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As soon as I read it I thought, "please don't let me be the only person who has a sick mind and is willing to comment it"

[-] phosphorik@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

aw dang you’re going to heck

[-] Cyb3rManiak@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Came here looking for this comment. Whoever came up with the title should be promoted.

[-] BrikoX@vlemmy.net 17 points 2 years ago

Could of mentioned that r/blind moderators are working on Lemmy instance.

[-] garrettw87@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

It's too bad they decided to memorialize the name "r/blind" containing the "r" in their domain, but I can understand why.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

There were good things about Reddit as well as bad. I see nothing wrong with remembering it as the site that it was rather than the site that it became in the end.

[-] garrettw87@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

true. 😔

[-] Dantastic@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

It's sort of surprised they were able to get the Rblind.com domain.

No way they would've been able to get blind.com. So domain wise it makes sense.

[-] techno156@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Indeed. You would have expected it to have been occupied by a domain squatter or something.

[-] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They also have ourblind.com which currently only points to their Discord. They are planning to use that as landing page to their Reddit, Lemmy and Discord communities.

[-] neamhsplach@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

For context, NCBI is the National Council for the Blind of Ireland. It's an NGO.

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