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Kinda wanna watch Reddit burn rn

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit has had a thousand problems since forever but this is kinda the last straw.

[–] comet@vlemmy.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm resisting the urge to open reddit and check how the blackout is going. But its hard, I'm really curious aaugh

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can watch subreddits go dark in real-time, which is cool

https://reddark.untone.uk/

[–] Pisodeuorrior@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking hell, the user count is right now at 2.4bil.

I wouldn't be surprised if spez were booted, his management of the situation was a dumpster fire.

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

Thats just the combined amount of all the subreddits. It does not account for users subscribing to multiple

[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Fuck reddit. But bro what's happening there, my mind wants to witness the chaos. But I will resist. The only Stat I want to be by them is offline.

[–] comet@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

check @kabe@lemmy.world 's reply to my comment, there's a site keeping track of the subreddits going dark

[–] FujiTive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope, but I think that this will end like Twitter: a lot of people will go on Lemmy, stay for some days and then go back on Reddit :(

[–] yozul 1 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmy and kbin have a better chance of replacing reddit than Mastodon ever had of replacing Twitter. People use Twitter to follow other people. On Twitter if not enough people move you kind of have to go back since most of the people you follow are still there. Reddit is more for news and memes and crap, if everything is getting posted here it's a lot less important that it's being posted by different people.

There will still be a bunch of people who go back, especially since Lemmy is still newer and less polished than Mastodon was when Musk bought Twitter, but I would guess that there'll be more people sticking around, and more of a slow trickle of people coming over even after things calm down.