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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (uk.pcmag.com)

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[-] NotYourSocialWorker@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

It might be as Louis Rossmann said, it was a mistake to say "we're going black for two days. They should've just says "were going black until you cange the rules again".

[-] Spacebar@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Abstaining for two days is enough to break a habbit.

Reddit's traffic might not recover for a while.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Of course it's up to the user to take action and abstain but if I open Reddit I see posts and can mostly scroll through my feed like it's any other day. If I wouldn't have known subreddits went private (and they didn't sticky a message) I might have not even noticed since I'll just see posts from subreddits who don't participate instead. The power that makes Reddit so good is working against the community effort right now.

The first thing I did this morning was open BaconReader from my homescreen before realizing what day it was. I replaced BaconReader with Jerboa to try and break the habit. It's not easy and I think Reddit knows it.

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Is this for real? I wonder if different people's r/all look different. Mine is a ghost land. I would know something is up instantly. There's like 20 posts on my front page with 0 up votes from random ass subreddits I've never heard of. The content of the posts on the front page is wildly different than normal too.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I never use r/all. But I just checked and most of the top posts I saw yesterday seemed to be there still, so maybe there's indeed not much going on.

[-] Ralphensnitch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is Jerboa, if you'll excuse my ignorance?

[-] frosty99c@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's the Android app for Lemmy

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lots are just going dark indefinitely so hopefully it hurts them. I went to look on there this morning and their server response is worse than Lemmy atm so I dunno what's going on.