Hopefully I’m posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      My partner is a casual reddit user; the experience change was immediately apparent. She got bored and switched to facebook because all of the niche communities that the larger subreddits repost from went silent.

      • s_s@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My GF is also a pretty casual reddit user and she was pretty pissed about her favorite subs being closed.

      • BlackCoffee@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This should be bumped.

        The smaller/niche communities is what made Reddit interesting.

        When those eventually decide to pack and the only vibrant communities are the meme subreddits etc then you would probably see a drop in usage.

    • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The large subs and front page just consist of bots reposting the same old content. The bots are easy to tell apart from real people just by eye, so I’m sure that reddit either has no problem with that or that they made these bots themselves to hide the fact that actual users are becoming less and less.

    • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve continued to tell people: This won’t kill Reddit in the sense of outright turning it into a ghost town. If your only goal is to make Reddit collapse overnight, you’re going to be disappointed. The quality content that many people here enjoy is not what makes up the frontpage of r/all or what a huge amount of passive users consume. Reddit has more than enough low quality trash to backfill the frontpage and keep users occupied.

      Anybody migrating should focus on porting quality content. Let reddit live long and be a dumping ground.

      • strainedl0ve@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I see this less as a damage to Reddit, and more as an opportunity to diversify, make people aware of the threat of centralised corporate-run platforms, and to build the federated internet alternatives a bit more, to give them momentum.

    • Bluejay@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I saw that too - hopefully the changes will show in the next “up” cycle. Apparently the bots are out to play as well.

    • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I was negatively surprised as well. Almost 60% of all big SFW subreddits closed, and still only a small percentage less posts and comments.

      • fresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m guessing (hoping) the difference at peak will be larger. All we can do now is wait and see, unfortunately.