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Reddit already looks different for me (self.technology)

submitted 2 years ago by phase_change to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really making me realise how much of reddit is NSFW haha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

when even NSFW subs going protesting you know reddit done a big fuckup

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NSFW subs are probably one of the most affected by the API changes - no 3PA would be able to access them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You are correct

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And not just minor NSFW subs, but some of the biggest ones that probably drove a lot of revenue for content creators outside of Reddit. They literally are killing off revenue streams in protest. That’s a big thing that people who are affected by it will remember.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"We had to put our dicks away for this, look what you made us do!"