• @NotYourSocialWorker
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    4411 months ago

    It might be as Louis Rossmann said, it was a mistake to say "we’re going black for two days. They should’ve just says “were going black until you cange the rules again”.

    • @[email protected]
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      2211 months ago

      Abstaining for two days is enough to break a habbit.

      Reddit’s traffic might not recover for a while.

      • @kadu
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        2011 months ago

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      • @[email protected]
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        1611 months ago

        Of course it’s up to the user to take action and abstain but if I open Reddit I see posts and can mostly scroll through my feed like it’s any other day. If I wouldn’t have known subreddits went private (and they didn’t sticky a message) I might have not even noticed since I’ll just see posts from subreddits who don’t participate instead. The power that makes Reddit so good is working against the community effort right now.

        The first thing I did this morning was open BaconReader from my homescreen before realizing what day it was. I replaced BaconReader with Jerboa to try and break the habit. It’s not easy and I think Reddit knows it.

        • @Mog_fanatic
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          1411 months ago

          Is this for real? I wonder if different people’s r/all look different. Mine is a ghost land. I would know something is up instantly. There’s like 20 posts on my front page with 0 up votes from random ass subreddits I’ve never heard of. The content of the posts on the front page is wildly different than normal too.

          • @[email protected]
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            611 months ago

            I never use r/all. But I just checked and most of the top posts I saw yesterday seemed to be there still, so maybe there’s indeed not much going on.

        • @Ralphensnitch
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          11 months ago

          What is Jerboa, if you’ll excuse my ignorance?

          • @frosty99c
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            1311 months ago

            It’s the Android app for Lemmy

    • @AustralianSimon
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      1411 months ago

      Lots are just going dark indefinitely so hopefully it hurts them. I went to look on there this morning and their server response is worse than Lemmy atm so I dunno what’s going on.

      • slopecarver
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        1211 months ago

        Loading full web pages takes more server processing power than API access.

        • @AustralianSimon
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          411 months ago

          This is browser and RIF just seems weird because blackout should mean less user load.

    • @hglman
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      311 months ago

      A lot of subs did that , im sure reddit worked do make it finite .