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.

  • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s more the latter for me. Lemmy (and navigating the fediverse) is a UX disaster for normal folk, so contributing content is the best thing I can do to make up for it haha

    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same. The calls to participate instead of lurk had their intended effect. I look forward to more polish and fewer bugs/obstacles in the (hopefully near?) future.

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Actually I also like how there aren’t any stupid immature in-jokes that Reddit has accumulated over the years. It’ll probably change over time, but for now its kinda between “Old Reddit” and “Hacker News”.