this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Kinda wanna watch Reddit burn rn

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit has had a thousand problems since forever but this is kinda the last straw.

[–] comet@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm resisting the urge to open reddit and check how the blackout is going. But its hard, I'm really curious aaugh

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can watch subreddits go dark in real-time, which is cool

https://reddark.untone.uk/

[–] Pisodeuorrior@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking hell, the user count is right now at 2.4bil.

I wouldn't be surprised if spez were booted, his management of the situation was a dumpster fire.

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Thats just the combined amount of all the subreddits. It does not account for users subscribing to multiple

[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Fuck reddit. But bro what's happening there, my mind wants to witness the chaos. But I will resist. The only Stat I want to be by them is offline.

[–] comet@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

check @kabe@lemmy.world 's reply to my comment, there's a site keeping track of the subreddits going dark

[–] FujiTive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I hope, but I think that this will end like Twitter: a lot of people will go on Lemmy, stay for some days and then go back on Reddit :(

[–] drinvictus@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

I was looking for reasons to quit Twitter before Musk takeover. And when he did I joined mastodon and never looked back. Reddit was turning to a shithole for a long time. And this was the last straw. I hope people realize that you can't have centralized social media and we can all make fediverse work