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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Yup. Agree with everything OP said. Been saying it since last week. The 48-hour blackout wasn’t going to kill Reddit. Hell, if all 8,000 subreddits had gone with indefinite blackouts, it likely wouldn’t have killed Reddit either. The fallout from Reddit’s decisions, and their response to the community, is going to take months, and probably even years, to really be visible.

    I’ve been on Reddit for more than 10 years. I started using Reddit regularly after Digg went to shit. I’ve seen the drama, controversies, and protests that previously have taken place on Reddit. But what’s been going on the last couple of weeks, I haven’t seen before. As I mentioned in another comment, this is the first time I’ve seen a concerted effort to find alternatives, not just for a few undesirables (i.e. Voat), but for the community as a whole.

    Yeah, the communities here are not going to be nearly as active as they were on Reddit, but people want communities, and just having a friendly place to gather will be enough to slowly attract others.


  • I don’t remember seeing a single person objecting.

    Depends on where you look, I suppose.

    We did a poll in r/snowboarding (a subreddit that it’s in its off-season, and currently just frequented by our most “loyal” users) about whether to continue the blackout, and after two days of voting, it was literally a 50-50 split, and the majority of the comments were against the blackout. On the week before the blackout, the vast majority of support was there for the 48 hour blackout. If we’d done that same poll in February, I have a feeling that the majority would have voted to not continue the blackout. In that sense, I don’t think spaz is too far off the mark.

    What the lying piece of corporate crap is ignoring is the fact that alternatives have grown considerably, traffic has gone down, and entire mod teams are quitting in protest. Reddit is going to be around for many many years, but this is the first time that I see a true push to create something different, not just for a few undesirables (i.e. Voat), but for the larger community in general.