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Does subreddits going dark for 2 days matter? Seems like an insignificant ampunt of disruption to make much of a difference, or am I wrong?
by khalladay 3y ago
Does subreddits going dark for 2 days matter? Seems like an insignificant ampunt of disruption to make much of a difference, or am I wrong?
- macintux 3y agoI don't know how widespread the sentiment is, but some mods have decided after the disastrous AMA that they're going dark indefinitely, until Reddit walks back the changes.
- mcjiggerlog 3y agoMany are now committing to either going dark indefinitely, or to reassess after the 14th, maybe with a poll to their members on how to proceed. This will definitely be going on for more than 2 days.
- jeffrallen 3y agoIf my Reddit communities are making polls, I won't even know to vote "keep it dark". I don't cross picket lines.
- afavour 3y agoDon’t you remember the Reddit net neutrality blackout? That did… uh… raise… awareness… kinda?
- 0xr0kk3r 3y agoVictoria Taylor blackout in 2015? also ... nothing.
- wvenable 3y agoThat one was trickier because there were no demands that could be met. Victoria didn't want her job back after all this.
- seydor 3y agodoes anybody remember what net neutrality was about? That's right redditors memory is probably less than 48h long
- x86x87 3y agoWhy only 2 days? This could happen again or it could keep going. Thus shows reddit what they are without all the freely contributed content and mod work.
- comfypotato 3y agoSome subs are going dark indefinitely
- guerrilla 3y agoYes, I think it does. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283553
- 404mm 3y agoOnly means Reddit is going to end for me a few weeks early :(
- dv_dt 3y agoIt would not matter if that were the only thing occurring, but as a discrete event in a significant cluster of events, this leads to more awareness and more reassessments by communities looking at what value and future reddit actually provides.
- joecot 3y agoThe initial plan was 2 days. Then Spez did his AMA where it was clear they were not interested in compromising, not planning to change anything, even seeing the enormous protest forming. So while some subreddits are still planning on 2 days, a growing number of them are going dark indefinitely until reddit rolls back this plan.
- microtonal 3y agoAlso, quite some people seem to be removing their accounts along with all their post history. Maybe not in numbers that are significant to make it a ghost town, but in some subreddits you already see gaps appearing in prior discussions. For some niches, Reddit's comment history is basically like a knowledge base and it's slowly being torn apart. If the group of signal-noise contributors that nukes their whole history grows, it devalues Reddit in another way as well.
- codeslave13 3y agoI nuked 12 years of content. Yes i know its archived and like still available. But at least on the public site i withdrew my consent (my thought process/reason) for them to have my content that i can now only provide with thier completely shitty apps
- bredren 3y agoHistory is littered with fits and starts of people working together to bring about change. It does matter that people have identified a trend of corporate behavior, and are finding ways to take stands against it.
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- seydor 3y agoIf they do it for more than 2 days , other subs will spring up Do people forget that making a subreddit is free?