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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.

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[–] tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc@lemmy.fmhy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, the past two days on reddit have been quite barren from my perspective.

Just switch to lemmy(this is my first comment!) And I'm still figuring it out.

I used RiF for years, so there's gonna be a bit of adjustment. But I can say without any doubt it already better than the official reddit app, functionality wise. Would like some more customization options. Hopefully in the near future!

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 7 points 1 year ago
[–] followthewhiterabbit 6 points 1 year ago

I hope you find your time here enjoyable!

Feel free to send me a message here if you need any help, but this community really feels like a community.

I know Lemmy has a bit of a learning curve, but I think you may have typed your password into the username field..