Currently on a train in the US. Noticed the guy sitting in front of me on the official Reddit app, looking at a bunch of subreddits and getting blocked by the private subs and their protest messages. Flipped around the blacked out content for a while and then gave up. It works!!!

  • Squirrel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    They must not be on that much. I don’t know how you could have missed every blackout post in the last week.

    • Katt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Friend of mine didn’t know about the blackout. They almost fell out of their chair when I told them. Sweet summer child…

    • Cralex@lemmy.oneEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Considering how many thousands of subreddits are closed down, and how many others have posts restricted but show a sticky with info, that’s quite an accomplishment!

    • Shannon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I am (was) active in some smaller niche subs (certain crafts, mostly) and quite a lot of users in those subs didn’t know what was going on. I guess some users only use Reddit for a few specific subs, and somehow manage not to see /r/all, etc.

      • Joe B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I checked reddit today on one of my subs and had 1 join request. Let em suffer 😜

        e: Deleted reddit all the way this morning. Exclusively using lemmy