If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it's shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.

If nothing else it's been very entertaining.

At the very least it's a big fuck you to spez.

It's at least something... If the userbase and Mods protests against the platform practice it must be a very frustrating thing.

Reddit's CEO seems to be hardcore about it, still. Little Musk as I call him ;P

Agreed, it’s unlikely that anything will change with the current management. Just sucks in general

in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community

Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.

subreddit named after Nazi propaganda has bootlicker mods, wow, what a surprise

Reminds me of the scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where people are watching their galaxies go "foom".

Freaking spooky. Cyberpunk, even.

Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren't interrupted too much...

Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.

Reddit is just boycotting itself. Nothing to see here

spez probably got butthurt at the blackout and decided to blackout everything instead.

A lot of subreddits will stay closed indefinitely.

I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit

AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I've seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.

lmao!

I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.

I have multiple reddit accounts and on one my front page was literally blank so it depends on what subs you look at

IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)

same posts and popular stuff

I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual. I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.

almost 13 years for me, which is kind of wild to say out loud.

going out in a blaze of mediocrity is pretty on brand, given how the site has been dying a slow, bloated death the last few years

You’ll be ok! It’s time to move on!

I've read about selling the account, does anyone have more information? My account is 14 years old, it might be worth something.

Deleted my icon from my homepage for sync on Saturday evening. Have had the odd craving but have managed to fill time with stuff I've been slacking on.

So thank you reddit for your money grabbing move.

Hey I just joined too. Goodbye reddit. No baconreader no reddit for me

Eyup!

it's not bad eh!

It might not be affecting the general population of reddit, but I'd hazard to guess that it is affecting the moderators significantly. You only need to piss off the moderators enough for them to take their sub(s) private.

RIF still works lol.

It's kind of a useless stat considering the amount of overlap.

Same here, I'm planning to delete my account on 06-30 and append a message to all my comments why I did so.

I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens

if the site won't load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247

Looks like the website crashed!

it's being streamed https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Never too many.

I've already seen a megathread on Lemmy linking to porn communities. It's inevitable

I think there's enough.

They're still public but they've locked down new posting to mod announcements only, which is kind of confusing but at least it's something.

As a long time member of r/Australia, it is very on point for them to not join the blackout.

So long and thanks for all the memes

You mean c/oddlysatisfying ;)

going to the website redirects you there now (:

Probably? Otherwise they'd not get any money

Yeah a whole bunch signed up for a bot to do it automagically. I was watching/laughing as I set my 3 member sub to private manually

Currently the page says 7278 (out of 7806) have gone dark.

It takes some time for Reddit to sync correctly. If they flash it means the mods changed to private!

It's a sync problem, there was a note on the website, it solves itself in a few minutes.

stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

my guess is a bug. i just watched r/askelectricians go public, but visiting the sub there's no mention of it ever going dark in the first place

There's currently 4,5k people watching the twitch stream. I bet there are several times that amount of people trying to access the webpage directly. It's just being hugged to death.