It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I think they did do research and third party app users make up a small enough portion of their user base that losing them is okay to Reddit.

    users maybe, but i don’t think they considered mods in that. of course they can just replace mods as necessary, but the mod quality will go down for sure.

    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Have they walked back the API costs for mod tools yet? Given they caved on the accessibility app, I’m anticipating them to cave there as well.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        no, I really don’t think that’s gonna happen. It wouldn’t make sense to only do it for mods, the 3rd party apps would still have the same issue of figuring out a revenue stream to stay alive.