Kinda wanna watch Reddit burn rn
Reddit has had a thousand problems since forever but this is kinda the last straw.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I'm resisting the urge to open reddit and check how the blackout is going. But its hard, I'm really curious aaugh
You can watch subreddits go dark in real-time, which is cool
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.
Thats just the combined amount of all the subreddits. It does not account for users subscribing to multiple
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.
check @kabe@lemmy.world 's reply to my comment, there's a site keeping track of the subreddits going dark
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 :(
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.
I was looking for reasons to quit Twitter before Musk takeover. And when he did I joined mastodon and never looked back. Reddit was turning to a shithole for a long time. And this was the last straw. I hope people realize that you can't have centralized social media and we can all make fediverse work