Hopefully I’m posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

  • Bruno Finger@beehaw.org
    20·
    2 years ago

    It’s sad though I truly enjoyed Reddit like obviously many here, but also to be fair I’ve also felt like the quality of posts and comments overall degraded and the whole thing turned into a big meme factory where only funny images with text and tiktok reposts really were uploaded.

    The whole thing started going downhills as soon as the first tiktok reposts started flooding in to be fairly honest. Let’s please not let this happen much here, unless of course in dedicated communities for that because everything has a place.

    Also, this is my first ever post on Lemmy, hi 👋

    • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 years ago

      I feel like this still depended on community. There was plenty of more niche hobby specific communities that were enjoyable. r/coffee comes to mind for me or something like r/fountain pens. I still enjoyed r/Analog although that had it’s own issues.

      • that_one_guy@beehaw.org
        4·
        2 years ago

        Yeah there are going to be quite a few TTRPG subreddits that I will miss. I really hope that the fediverse will be able to grow enough that niche interest pages can thrive here like they did over on reddit.

  • haganbmj@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 years ago

    The level of unity has been awesome. At first I thought this might only really spread through tech minded subreddits, but it really caught on broadly.

  • sintamo@beehaw.org
    13·
    2 years ago

    There’s something so therapeutic about having Reddark open in a tab in the background - every time I hear the ding, a little voice in my head cheers. Interesting times, folks.

    • RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.comOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, even a year ago I don’t think I would have imagined this happening. I wasn’t around for the Digg -> Reddit migration but I wonder if this feels a bit like that.

      • sintamo@beehaw.org
        14·
        2 years ago

        I went LiveJournal > Digg > Reddit, and there’s definitely a similar energy to the Digg days - but the level of organization we’re seeing here feels totally new. The other difference though, is that the Digg migration had direction. It felt like within a month we had all moved to Reddit. I don’t see that happening here, so really this is uncharted territory. It’ll be fun to watch, that’s for sure.

  • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
    12·
    2 years ago

    Nice to see the subreddits listed by subs. Reddit can’t ignore this… interested to see how they respond. I’m sure it will be some half baked knee jerk reaction that will get the community even more against them.

    • RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.comOP
      12·
      2 years ago

      I’m not entirely sure. Seems like there will be plenty of inertia from the subreddits remaining open. I’d imagine that eventually Reddit will force them open again.

      But they aren’t going to be getting those moderators back on the site without some sort of change. It’ll be really interesting to see how much of an impact that has.

      • Slartibartfast@beehaw.org
        16·
        2 years ago

        Reddit will replace the mod teams of the core subs with some of the many power hungry citizens of the web.

        If they need to I expect they will pay contracts for them.

        I’m not optimistic that it will affect Reddit.

      • JustBrian7872@feddit.de
        12·
        2 years ago

        I fell like throwing out the mods might just be that reaction. Anyway if anything, I might only share Lemmy content on Reddit in the future.

        • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
          8·
          2 years ago

          this is what we are doing, moving everything here then will be resharing links to lemmy posts on reddit. going to do the same thing on all the centralized networks.

  • lorossi97@feddit.it
    10·
    2 years ago

    I don’t see myself going back to Reddit if they keep those subs closed down. However I do believe that if this “strike” goes on for longer than a week or so, the admins will forcefully replace each closed subreddit mods to make them live again.