• Mantipath@sh.itjust.works
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      The blackout helped me to leave.

      It’s difficult to rewire a dopamine pathway you’ve been traveling for 14 years.

      Knowing that other people care enough to abstain for two days is useful in that process.

      I never expected Reddit to change their policy. I have been surprised at how petulant, dishonest and unprofessional they’ve been. I would have expected a bland corporate response.

      Anyway, onward and upward.

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      Not surprised, still disappointed. Will discuss with other mods the idea of nuking our community as a “fuck you” to Reddit.

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      7750/8300 subreddits are blacked out. Plus the server issues caused by the blackout yesterday. I’d be interested to see if an indefinite strike could be powerful enough to reverse this plan

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      I wouldn’t say it was a flop. A massive number of subs and users are participating at the moment (some forced due to the blackouts). But I do agree that reddit executives definitely don’t give a shit, and will eventually just start booting mods to bring the subs back if they don’t fall in line.

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      It was never going to do more than get people talking, the number of subreddits isn’t as important as what the long term impact to users and quality will be. They have signaled their interests are not user centric, it wont be the last outrage I’m sure but they’ll keep getting away with it if there isn’t a clear alternative and people keep going back.

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          The number on the page is a bit misleading. If you comb through the website’s code on GitHub, you’ll see that the 8,838 is actually the number of subreddits that agreed to participate in the blackout.

          Calling it a flop isn’t accurate either, though.

          Sure, most subreddits don’t care, but the largest and most active subreddits are overwhelmingly in support of the blackout, but they are also much more affected by Reddit’s changes than smaller subreddits.

          EDIT: Some words for clarity.

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          Reddit has more than 100k active subreddits lol. Also, this number doesn’t mean much because community sizes vary a LOT

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      What absolutely bends my mind is there’s still confused people wandering into the blackout threads with absolutely no clue what’s going on. How is this info not reaching these people?