Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I'll just lock it for now.

Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?

"Ok guys, if we take the site down they can't have a blackout: It's brilliant!"

-Spez probably

I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.

No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.

The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.

It's my fault apparently

we did it reddit

Some possibilities:

• Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
• Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
• The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
• Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.

Reddit free tier usage reached

Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now

The Verge article:

“A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

So... According to Reddit the blackout is the culprit, I guess?

So either it's just an outage and they're faulting the blackout, or the blackout is actually the culprit. Either way I hope this works. However, I'm still not going back to Reddit even if they fix and reverse everything.

THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN

Aggressive techno noises

I hope the major subs stay dark. The only thing keeping reddit afloat is moderators. Without tools the mods would need full time paid positions which is never going to happen. I'd like to see them all burn. Its become a shit show of adds and bots now anyway. Good riddance. I wish someone would incorporate freenets web of trust system to some type of decentralized app like this.

I think it's ridiculous that it's actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?

See TheVerge: "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"

Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.

Maybe they just ran out of money and their hosting provider shut them down? Reddit was so desperate with these API fees

What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)

LMFAO

Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.

its a reddit psyop so you go and check and bump the numbers up. stay woke.

It's back up again... DANG!

Edit: And DOWN again lmao

i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn't prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior 👌

seems unlikely (to me) that this would be intentional from reddit's side. You'd think they would be VERY interested to see how this really impacts site traffic and how much "protest" they can absorb before taking administrative action against mods/subreddits.

Was curious what was happening, was using libreddit and figured they were just being bogged down, but my mobile app doesn't work either. Also anyone know why the upvotes on this post are fluctuating between <10, ~20, 150, 400, etc.? Are they upvote numbers for different instances?

Can I just say, I'm so happy that everybody banded together against them. Like a bunch of strangers on the internet grouping together to tell them, "No, you will not"

I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of uninformed users are getting blocked from subreddits and are constantly retrying.