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.

    • Stone4D@beehaw.orgEnglish
      24·
      2 years ago

      Always funny when a notification for an NSFW sub going private comes up.

      You go, r/amateurcumsluts.

      • ax28@beehaw.orgEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Yeah it’s really making me realise how much of reddit is NSFW haha

          • thisn@feddit.deEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            NSFW subs are probably one of the most affected by the API changes - no 3PA would be able to access them. (At least from what I understand)

          • comet@vlemmy.netEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            “We had to put our dicks away for this, look what you made us do!”

          • MayTheBananaBeWithYo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            And not just minor NSFW subs, but some of the biggest ones that probably drove a lot of revenue for content creators outside of Reddit. They literally are killing off revenue streams in protest. That’s a big thing that people who are affected by it will remember.

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Me neither, I thought it would be a much smaller percentage than this (now 5497 of 7047).

        But I guess it’s probably because the subreddit mods specifically rely on the mod tools provided by 3rd party apps, so the people most motivated to protest all this are also the ones who are fully able to simply turn everything off.

        • scheissberg@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Man, this is turning out to be one of the worst pre-IPO disasters in history, if this move was indeed for Reddit to increase its valuation for an upcoming IPO. Really shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

    • c0mpufreak@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the link! Really interesting to see how many already went dark. Can confirm that my frontpage doesn’t look anywhere near what is usually looks like.