I've been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.
Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn't go dark, but those wouldn't be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what's up?
Oh...thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!
Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here's a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.
Makes sense, posts can be (and are) automated via repost bots. Commente and genuine interaction is impossible to fake.
Would love to see a list of large subreddits that aren't participating and the statements (if any) they put out explaining why.
David Revoy's take on the Reddit situation: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/110532791930270318
r/programming is private even though I think a lot of the mods were reddit employees, I think even u/spez. what is going on lol
If the AMA taught us anything, it's that spez doesn't actually use reddit. Let alone understand it.
Hell, I'll let this be my first comment; it's on a different instance than my account to boot! I'm running into some issues with some of the newer instances not being federated; some of the subreddits I was hoping to replace here are unavailable as a result. Still, I'm happy enough to be a part of something new and different.
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