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.

  • Vinnyboiler@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Sowing the seeds is what I hope happens. I’m not moderator material, I don’t normally post content and I normally prefer to lurk. Yet I’m going out my way to cultivate a successful migration so the real guys who know what they are doing can take over and allow me to once again doom-scroll lol.

    • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      yeah, i am doing my best to actually comment more, and make a few posts. probably more posts in the last couple of days than all of reddit’ing.

      #rexxit

      • TenNinetythree@vlemmy.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I too posted more, not more than in total because I was 11 years there and sometimes posted daily, but I do participate more

    • AfroThundr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I feel called out lmao. I’ve been more active on fediverse apps in the last week than I was on normal social networks in the last year.