Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.

What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.

It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users' expense.

I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.

Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives

I don’t know about you, but streaming the “Darkening” is like the best thing ever. Just reading all the comments as viewers cheer on each subreddit.

When r/trees wend private I was thinking “shit just got real.”

Anyway, I suggest watching the stream, if just for the cameraderie.

"6236/7265 subreddits are currently dark."

85.83%

That's a pretty good response from the subs.

This is just beautiful to watch. For once reddit comes together to spite... reddit.

It's sad though I truly enjoyed Reddit like obviously many here, but also to be fair I've also felt like the quality of posts and comments overall degraded and the whole thing turned into a big meme factory where only funny images with text and tiktok reposts really were uploaded.

The whole thing started going downhills as soon as the first tiktok reposts started flooding in to be fairly honest. Let's please not let this happen much here, unless of course in dedicated communities for that because everything has a place.

Also, this is my first ever post on Lemmy, hi 👋

500 error

Looks like it got hugged

The level of unity has been awesome. At first I thought this might only really spread through tech minded subreddits, but it really caught on broadly.

Looks like it got the hug of death.

Wow /r/nba decided to go dark. So unexpected and huge respect to the mods there. Really huge one with the NBA finals going on too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230612030017/https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1476rje/team_and_community_rnba_is_participating_in_the/

Nice to see the subreddits listed by subs. Reddit can't ignore this... interested to see how they respond. I'm sure it will be some half baked knee jerk reaction that will get the community even more against them.

This one has a pretty nice look with a list of all 6000 participating subreddits and fading in in real-time when a subreddit goes dark:

https://reddark.untone.uk/

I do hope the ones going dark migrate here and start over.

There's something so therapeutic about having Reddark open in a tab in the background - every time I hear the ding, a little voice in my head cheers. Interesting times, folks.

There's a handful of NSFW, but I'm surprised their isn't more since they are getting hit harder than anyone else.

so many have gone dark already, this is impressive.

It's going to be satisfying watching them slowly tick green.

I don't see myself going back to Reddit if they keep those subs closed down. However I do believe that if this "strike" goes on for longer than a week or so, the admins will forcefully replace each closed subreddit mods to make them live again.

Is the 5,563 on the side the total number of subreddits!? That would mean 1/5 of all subreddits are now private. :O

Oh god here it comes. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Here's a live Twitch stream tracking the subreddits going down based upon your link, which is based upon r/Modcoord .

Man, it's so satisfying to watch all of these subreddits switch to green. I really wish more of them committed to an indefinite shutdown though.

I found a different one, posted by the author on the DataIsBeautiful subreddit: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

This has been super interesting. I’ve never seen communities listed in this manner. I’d be interested in this kind of sort for other services as well.

Really hoping to see major players go dark soon and wishing they would stay that way, like r/videos plans to. Oh, what the world would be like if corporations actually cared about the people they profit from.

The site has been overloaded, so now they are streaming it on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Thanks for sharing!

blackout.photon-reddit.com

Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging....