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.

  • liontigerwingsEnglish
    47·
    2 years ago

    Most people will go back to reddit in two day. I just hope the whole ordeal seeds Lemmy with enough of a community to grow so one day, it will have feature parity with reddit and an actual community. This probably won’t be a Digg like migration, but maybe it’s the beginning of a myspace to Facebook like migration.

    Digg seems like it went down overnight lol.

    • itty53@vlemmy.netEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Not those of us who exclusively used the 3rd party apps. Former RiF user here, reddit for 12 years. Not doing it on their app, you couldn’t pay me to tolerate that experience. Using Jerboa right now and with a couple tiny improvements, I got no problem switching.

      • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        100%, I was almost 12 years and have always used RES and Apps. Reddit has been going downhill since they “had” to make money and this was the last straw.

    • Vinnyboiler@feddit.ukEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Sowing the seeds is what I hope happens. I’m not moderator material, I don’t normally post content and I normally prefer to lurk. Yet I’m going out my way to cultivate a successful migration so the real guys who know what they are doing can take over and allow me to once again doom-scroll lol.

      • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        yeah, i am doing my best to actually comment more, and make a few posts. probably more posts in the last couple of days than all of reddit’ing.

        #rexxit

      • AfroThundr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I feel called out lmao. I’ve been more active on fediverse apps in the last week than I was on normal social networks in the last year.

    • steakfries@lemmy.oneEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Idk I think more people will stick around then won’t. But I don’t think it will be immediate. It will be a slower migration as Lemmy gets better and better and easier to use and there is less and less of a reason to go back to reddit for anything. I’ll only ever go there if I have to for some reason but over time those reasons will become less and less as the communities here grow.

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Best thing we can do is add as much content and comments/posts as possible over the next few days!

        I’m doing my part.

          • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
            5·
            2 years ago

            Yeah only problem is fragmentation of groups (same community name over different instances).

            A good solution would be something like multi-reddits, but multi-communities. So a user would create a curated list of communities that are combined into a single feed.

            It’ll be a pretty big feature and take time to develop, but it’ll help a lot.

    • amortized_cost@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy seems to be doing pretty well so far. I don’t expect nor want lemmy&fediverse to completely dominate world of social network. That would only make spam/bot worse imo. I want it iust enough for me to enjoy.

    • hexbatch@vlemmy.netEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Digg went down fast because there was a well known alternative other people could use. And Digg made far more mistakes than the reddit admins. But I hope now, every time the greedy reddit board does something people do not like, it shakes loose a few more people willing to use alternatives.

      Similar to shaking a fruit tree, and getting apples to fall to the ground here and there

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m not so sure. There are subreddits I need like /r/anime that have already extended the blackout, if other subreddits follow suit which I think they will then there’s no reason for me to go back to reddit, there’s nothing there but a corrupt out of touch immature CEO.