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    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.oneOP
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      My hot take: Going dark won’t change anything, but it’s still a nice middle finger.

      Following June 30 is when reddit will really change, when mods and influential users leave the site due to losing support for 3PA

      Reddit will continue to be propped up like Weekend At Bernie’s after that, much like the sites of the past like Digg and MySpace

      Reddit will gradually lose all cred and will be considered just as sketchy as any other social media

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        Reddit doesn’t have to close in order for this blackout to be successful.

        Myspace is still alive but not relevant.

        I think the best-case scenerio is that the blackout, combined with 3rd party apps shutting down will cause a partial migration to fediverse-based solutions.

        As long as the communities get a kickstart then it will change the companies trajectory.

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          I’m hoping it’ll just kinda fracture people into their preferred online homebases, opening up opportunities to fool around everywhere.

          Reddit gradually went from “The Front Page of the Internet” to “Basically the Entire Internet” for a lot of us and it doesn’t need to remain that way.

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        Going dark won’t change anything,

        In the /r/apollodev post there is a section with all the info of the latest call they had before shit hit the fan.

        In that, Reddit said that “[Reddit] is open to discussion, if moderators promise to keep subreddits open”, so personally, I don’t think it won’t change anything.

        As for what, we have yet to see.

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          Just like theyre “now working with the devs” to pay for the API after ignoring them for 3 months? I’ll believe it when i see it, those liars don’t get to say one thing and do the opposite

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    This reminds me so much of the mistake digg made that made me and so many people move over to reddit.

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    over 6000 / 7000 so far, keeps increasing. Also, there are several more communities that are locked rather than private that arent being tracked. fuck spez.

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      6553/7265 subreddits are currently dark.

      That’s like … 2500 more than originally committed currently gone dark, not including the ones that have locked. This is going great.

      Lol at the contrarians who said we wouldn’t go through with it.

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    Interestingly, two bisexual subreddits, one enby subreddit, and r/holup keep switching between private and public and it has been happening for a full hour now. Mods infighting, perhaps?

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      Wait even subreddits have sexualities now? They better sort out their fights in private!

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      What a result! The spiteful bastard in me wishes it were permanent. Fuck corporate culture, fuck two-faced slimeball dickshits, and fuck /u/spez.

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        On the other hand the amount of information that will be lost forever will be staggering if they do stay permanently private, there is almost two decades worth of stuff, a lot of it posted directly to reddit that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

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      877 subreddits have gone dark already, and that number continues to increase

      Oddly, r/AdviceAnimals had a sticky about going dark, but now they’ve nuked any mention of it on their sub and removed the sticky after a moderator gave conflicting information