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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gary@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we'll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

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[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

He has a point with keep going forward. The reaction of reddit admins is what makes the change easy for me. I can waste my time here.

[-] Ozma_of_Oz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You know you're doing the right thing when you have to instruct your employees not to wear your brand to avoid confrontation.

[-] matzah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

I work on a corporate team and often companies will allow team members to wear anything to work as long as it’s branded. This, employees have an incentive to spend that money to customize their look at work, if that’s important to them. It is to some people.

My company has a code that brings all items down to cost, and I have bought some uniform items that way to mix up what I wear at work.

The company that I work for is a small business with a great local reputation; wearing my company’s logo is a positive for me. Can’t say that would be the case if I worked for Reddit.

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[-] ShinNoodleBlackCup@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of Blackberry

They will slowly fade and become an archive

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

All I can say is that for every person voicing their opinion and leaving by making a scene, there are many more of us just silently deleting our comments and posts and just disappearing from reddit. Those are the ones reddit should be concerned about.

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[-] Jaybird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I've joined Mastodon after the twitter "melt down" and I have not gone back. It's quite good and feels like the BBS days of yore.

And I will stay here as well (lemmy) hoping to get the "reddit feel" back again.

[-] honeybee@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

As a fellow Reddit transfer, so far it feels like it has! There’s a couple of subs that where quite important to me so I’m hoping I can track them down on here, or get them up and going!

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[-] AyyLMAO@exploding-heads.com 10 points 1 year ago

The reddit blackout was as effective as turning off the lights at night.

Well, it's a new day now and the users will be back - Just like they promised. 🐕

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