There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
At 2044 now but bi_irl having trouble deciding
As is tradition
Here’s the website if you want to see the updates live without the twitch stream: https://reddark.untone.uk
Thanks! That chat stream hurt my eyes. Just hit 2500.
Those subs are going down faster than spez’s credibility
Super impressed with the initiative. Let’s see how spez reacts to it
My expectation is that if any of the higher traffic subs hold the line for more than a few days, the greedy little pig boy will replace the mods with loyalists and force them open.
I’m honestly grateful in a way. It’s forced me to look very seriously at the fediverse apps such as Lemmy and I’m really liking the model more than putting all of our eggs in one basket.
Word man. If we can pull this off I really think it’s a better future for social media in general.
Agreed. As much as I am saddened to lose out on some of the communities from reddit, I think this is the right direction. In time the communities will come back together and we will have been better off decentralizing.
About 15 minutes to go for the ‘Official’ start and it’s already over 2100.
Yowsers Redddit, you dun goofed!
This is great, thank you for the info and evening entertainment.
Does anybody know what is Reddit’s userbase size? It’s difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.
it’s a bad judge IMO since people are subbed to multiple places and can be counted multiple times
reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.
As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.
There’s some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.
I’ve noticed “ELI5” also is on the list… that’s a huge one!
There’s no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless ‘active’ means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.
My local city subreddit is always pretty active, but it hardly has any users. I think there’s lots of small, niche subs that have a decent level of activity. Just because they don’t have enough users to ever hit the frontpage is kind of immaterial to that.
It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won’t have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public
I’m not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.
reddit likely did research beforehand, and thought that enough new users since 2017 wouldn’t care, because it’s quite clear they don’t care about losing their older userbase.
I’ve seen users there mocking the protest. Even outrightly being hostile to individual users who post support. And when I look at their profiles I see that they are mostly 3 or 4-year-old accounts.
It seems that you are right. The users who came into Reddit accompanying its decline, simply do not care and are part of the mindless shitposters who partially ruined the site.
2102/6001 so far.
RIP /r/IllegallySmolCats.
We really need an instance that only has communities made from the cat subs
It’s going so fast I can’t keep up. You hate to see it.
