The Reddit blackout was pretty underwhelming

tango_octogono@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.org – 111 points –

In the last 3 days I've been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and...

Yeah

Wasn't expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there's a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

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Have you ever added the word Reddit to a web search so you could find an answer online a lot of digging?

Stuff like that I imagine got hit hard. There will always be core communities that either stay up or are easy replicate but I imagine they'll be losing a lot of smaller communities.

yes! i landed on reddit twice during the last couple days that way.

  • the NixOS sub wasn't dark, but users were asking about that and some were dropping the lemmy link.
  • the selfhosted sub (or one adjacent to it, don't remember) was dark, and for this query i actually could not find the info i needed written anywhere else. that was a wakeup call.

This is why subreddits shouldn't close permanently. I wonder if its possible to leave subreddits in read-only mode? to allow anyone to find all the incredibly valuable information.

More importantly this is why we never should have allowed private companies to monopolize our access to our own freely shared information.

Yes it's called restricted mode. Only whitelisted users can make posts or comments.