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The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (48 children)

Many subs are already opening up again sadly.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (19 children)

The subs going dark should have only been half of the protest. Users should have also stayed away from the site but I don't think that was really coordinated.

The number of new posts didn't drop much, the comments dropped a bit more but only by like 20%, which isn't a lot given the amount of subs that went dark. Reddit doesn't care about subs, they care about users and it seems engagement was still pretty high.

The next protest should be to all users to stop using the site. Drop the users and they'll start to listen.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Before asking people to leave, subs creator should create similar communities on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. A long term blackout, especially a user blackout, is not feasible without a replacement place to go to.

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