It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I didn’t reddit will go away for a while. It’s almost too big to fail. The large reddit run subs are still live and active. Users who don’t sub to any subs that went dark may not even know anything happened. I have to imagine reddit knew they would lose users of 3rd party apps so it likely isn’t a large portion of where they make money. I think there will probably be a decline in content for a short time, then we will see new subs emerge with people who don’t care about the API lock down, ads, Chinese investors, bots, and reposts.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yep. My guess is that there’s going to be so much karma farming bots and reposts, that it’s going to be absolutely wild.

    • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      then we will see new subs emerge with people who don’t care about the API lock down, ads, Chinese investors, bots, and reposts.

      Let’s regard reddit as a honeypot to keep this crowd away from lemmy :]

    • Dead Gemini@ohai.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      You’re probably right. Consumers barely care about anything outside of their own media consumption and comfort. After nixing password sharing, a blatant anti-consumer move, Netflix experienced the most signups they’ve seen since keeping track of that data. For a service that’s also jacked up their price and lost a massive portion of their catalogue over the past decade.

      Most people just don’t care lol. It’s pathetic and irresponsible, but it’s the truth. Reddit will probably be fine, sadly.