Just logged into reddit, from Canada, it’s not working correctly. I suspect so many subs going dark have unveiled a bug that has broken some algorithms. Here’s hoping they are a pain to fix and require a significant reengineering effort. Anyone confirm the same behavior?

  • @MonkCanatella
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    861 year ago

    Maybe they’re doing “server maintenance” for the next 48 hours so the blackout seems like it was just planned maintenance lmao

      • @MonkCanatella
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        301 year ago

        Like the antiwork fiasco. I remember the astroturfing going on where they tried to move people over to “work reform” aka we like work and bosses are good!

        • @Rick
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          1 year ago

          no anti work believe no one should work and every should get paid for sitting on their asses, and work reform believes in giving workers what they want, such as higher pay, less hours, better benefits and things such as that.

          EDIT: based on my ratio im not sure I want to continue on this site lmao, I have a feeling its just going to turn into another Voat if this shit keeps up

            • @hydra
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              191 year ago

              at least you get to see controversial entries get both upvotes and downvotes rather than the net number only. helps for better discussion.

            • @veroxii
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              81 year ago

              Yes. The spirit of reddit truly is still alive over here.

            • @Rick
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              -131 year ago

              Also with how federation works, I don’t have too see any of this if I dont want to so if Lemmy.World devolves into a communist instance I can just switch to a different one. Win for the both of us.

            • @Rick
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              -181 year ago

              nah not wining as downvotes are completely irrelevant on lemmy, just thought it was interesting

          • Sleepless One
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            141 year ago

            You don’t reform your way out of capitalism. Any concessions given to the proletariat will be clawed back once the booj don’t have to worry about the threat of revolution.

            • @Rick
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              41 year ago

              Bruh I dont even agree with all of capitalism as I think the best economy would be a mixed one like Finland. I am just against any form of extremism as it leads to narrow thinking.

          • @AnonTwo
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            111 year ago

            undefined> EDIT: based on my ratio im not sure I want to continue on this site lmao, I have a feeling its just going to turn into another Voat if this shit keeps up

            …Or the people on r/antiwork are here as well and downvoted you for a very bias post to their members?

            Like what did you think would happen? This would happen on Reddit as well unless you were on a subreddit that specifically supported your stance.

            • @t_renne
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              91 year ago

              There is nothing biased about that post. The initial group of r/antiwork was against working at all. With more people joining that shifted to the more reasonable “work needs a major, worldwide reform because being treated like shit for fifty decades to then not have enough pension to survive is fucked up”

              Work Reform was then created because of “that” interview, it had nothing to do with cozying up to companies or bosses.

            • @Rick
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              -41 year ago

              Yeah you just verified my edit thank you

              • @AnonTwo
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                11 year ago

                What does Voat mean in this case then? It’s just like Reddit really.

                • @Rick
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                  61 year ago

                  You mean reddit will be like Voat? Voat is gone. You can’t sustain a platform on extremism alone

            • @[email protected]
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              91 year ago

              The anti-work sub did a “clear out” of people that just didn’t want to work, and now is more in line with work-reform. The original mod did some sort of interview that pissed off the users.

            • @Rick
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              -21 year ago

              I agree work reform was slipping but it was not even close to the communist mess that is AntiWork. I’ve seen posts on AntiWork with hundreds of upvotes about burning down walmarts to send a message.

              • @[email protected]
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                81 year ago

                It’s funny they chose that tactic to promote, seeing as walmart corporate will do all but burn the building down whenever there’s a successful union drive or anything that looks like it could manifest one. They’ll close the store indefinitely for ‘cleaning’, toss any spoiled inventory, and hire an all new crew. So not quite burning it down, but they’ll definitely footgun themselves to prevent any worker choice. Burning it down would do all the work for them.

              • Łumało [he/him]
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                51 year ago

                communist mess

                They were principally anarchist and banned Marxists, and in standard anarchist fashion they advocated for adventurism instead of promoting an actual political platform lmao

                • @Rick
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                  -11 year ago

                  They can claim that all they want but I seen the content that is posted their, they just claim that to skirt reddit from banning them like they do other communist subs.

      • @BlankSix
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        61 year ago

        If it is deliberate, I’m pretty sure that’d be a call-our-bluff sort of situation and they’d end up with a longer blackout as a result, at least until the majority of participating mods are replaced/banned.

        I’d assumed a minor reverse-reddit-hug, personally - there are a lot of news stories on this today with a lot of links to reddit. Either way, a day in and I’m here and kinda loving it, despite it being a bit … wonky on posting today with all us refugees.

          • 𝔼𝕘𝕠
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            91 year ago

            Every mod is just AwkwardTurtle on a throwaway account.

            • @BlankSix
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              11 year ago

              lol. Yeah no y’all aren’t wrong by any stretch, and I doubt they’d really get rid of a lot of those power mods but the smaller subs? Sure. Also, give one of the regular people power-modding power and they could, theoretically, have normal function resuming inside a week. It’d still be a huge mess, though.

              Either way, I’m sure there’s an admin script available to mass-remove or ban, though that’d be a really drastic move on their part. The bluff call’s far more likely. Be interesting to see what they do regarding the large subs and their mods, though.

    • Gikiski
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      51 year ago

      Monday, no long weekend, 10 EDT, perfect time to do maintenance.

    • Striker
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      141 year ago

      Kbin and Reddit being down proves that God is on Lemmy’s side. Its a sign from the Lord I tell ya.

    • abff08f4813c
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      41 year ago

      I tried to go on kbin to write that reddit was down … only to discover kbin is down too!

  • Art35ian
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    311 year ago

    Who cares. Lemmy is up.

  • @globalboy70OP
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    1 year ago

    Maybe, this is the day the CEO goes…“hmm, maybe I was wrong, and communities are important to reddit, and the value of free moderation far out weighs my API idiocy”, but probable not because CEO tend to be self centered, sociopaths so will most likely double down. Good let’s just move to lemmy and mastodon get federation working between them and get rid of centralized corporate internet that always screws their communities after we create the value.

    • @SPOOSER
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      61 year ago

      And then the ceo thinks: “Oh well, better use this downtime to start finding new mods for communities that wont go back up in two days!”

  • Zamboniman
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    181 year ago

    Yup, there’s something going on. It’s down here too and I’ve already seen a number of posts on Lemmy about this.

  • @canthidium
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    101 year ago

    Definitely something going on. Redditstatus.com shows everything operational. I noticed weird bugs yesterday too like images for different posts on the main page. Funny how less users has made it more broken.

      • 💡dim
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        11 year ago

        All the hidden subs has broken every web crawler in the world, so crawler bots have ended up ddos’ing reddit :D

  • @thepenis_mightier
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    91 year ago

    God. Every time I see “new” reddit, I vomit a little bit inside. Old reddit for life, and I guess this is it.

  • Trashitagain
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    41 year ago

    I mean, is it more likely that they’re trying to save face by breaking the website, that they’re incompetent, or that some angry users are ddosing?

    I’d go incompetence, ddos, deliberate in that order.

  • @x_marty97
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    31 year ago

    Also from Canada, dead on my end too. It’s hard to imagine the servers crashing with so much less traffic than usual (even if those servers are probably just a few toasters duct-taped together)