The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I'm pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.

I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?

Just wanted to say that's a very nice and clean looking page.

Seeing some subreddits go private as a pop-up in the bottom right while on the site gave me a weird sense of apprehension...

Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...

So are subreddits still planning to stay shut for only 2 days or are we extending that? Because 2 days does not seem enough for this.

Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.

At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.

Congrats to...checks notes.../r/earfetish for being the 1000th to go dark lol

I decided to check the front page (as in /r/popular, what people see by default) out of morbid curiosity since most of Reddit has gone dark now, and honestly it’s like nothing has changed for the casual user.

The biggest subs with the most traffic haven’t gone dark at all, and all the same posts and popular stuff still fill the front page, so for many people I suspect they’re not even going to feel this, but maybe it’s a bit too premature to be making this conclusion, let’s see what happens.

EDIT: I was somewhat premature with this post, even /r/popular is pretty barren as things move nowhere near as fast. That being said, it's disappointing to see how much is still open, and how some subreddits (such as /r/pcmasterrace) are clearly missing the point by allowing "certain posts".

8 years, 11 months.

I'm going dark in solidarity. 100 minutes to go in my time zone.

Goodbye, u/mutisi0n. Goodbye, Reddit. It's been real.

I'm one of the new Lemmy users, fleeing from the sinking ship that is Reddit. Hi everyone!

It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!

Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.

Shit is collapsing. I hope the Reddit Board are enjoying a huge bowl of ‘Found Out’.

There's also a Twitch stream linked at the top of the page. Join us in sitting around, watching, and chatting as the proverbial shit hits the fan!

Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.

Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I'm thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I'm good with it.

This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?

Come on r/Australia. Do the right thing!!!

Weirdly enough, the website gone dark on me so now I can't see Reddit subs go dark.

many will have a cake day this week, it will be an indication of a fellow refugee hahaha

I feel like each time a sub goes private there should be a custom final message or something. Like a last post saying "Goodnight and good luck" 😅

Is the website using the API to fetch it's data? That would be hilarious.