Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
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#3Incredibly impressive to see the community unite with nearly 80% of the subreddits blacked out.
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#4This sounds ridiculous even to me, but it’s a strange feeling to see the death of Reddit. It’s the only quasi-social network I’ve used for a decade, and there are many communities that I feel at home in.
It’s almost like grief, or feeling untethered somehow.
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#5The site seems to have gotten stuck. There are a couple mirror sites listed which are working. e.g. https://reddark-digitalocean-7lhfr.ondigitalocean.app/
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#6Incredibly impressive to see the community unite with nearly 80% of the subreddits blacked out.
Keep in mind this is 80% of the subreddits that announced would be participating in the event. There are over 3.5 million subreddits altogether, though of course most of them are dead or with a single user.
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#7This sounds ridiculous even to me, but it’s a strange feeling to see the death of Reddit. It’s the only quasi-social network I’ve used for a decade, and there are many communities that I feel at home in. It’s almost like grief, or feeling untethered somehow.
It's definitely surreal.
Will apathy help Reddit to succeed? Will users and communities end this protest and go back to business as usual?
Will Reddit buckle under pressure and go back on the API changes?
Is this the beginning of the end?
Or will Reddit drastically change because of this and it will be unrecognisable in the years to come?
It's an interesting time.
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#8I was watching the stream earlier. It was an exciting feeling to have 10,000 people viewing, and cheering on the chat whenever a new subreddit went dark.
I don't know if I should be excited or sad. Reddit is dying, but I'm seeing it live on Twitch with the community cheering on in a festive atmosphere.
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#9Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?
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#10Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?
Nothing other then the sheer amount of subreddits and hours of commitment by the new mods