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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So far the event went as expected. Reddit seems to be back and will continue to live on. It's really unfortunate. I was hoping that this event could the the catalyst to break the monopoly. A 2-day protest just doesn't cut it. And while I was keeping an eye on it a couple of really big subs were still "discussing" whether they'd got dark or not. If subs go dark one by one it just doesn't have the same effect as a concerted, well organised simultaneous blackout. Without a fixed time.

With that much impact all combined subs could have made a difference. But they botched it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meh - maybe Reddit will live on, maybe it’ll die. It’s immaterial and worrying about it is a waste of energy. What we need to concentrate on is keeping the forward momentum going and making Lemmy into a truly viable alternative. The rest will follow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah. Reddit was never going to magically die overnight. If it dies, it's going to be a long and slow process. But that process starts with with some number of us jumping ship and focusing on bringing alternatives like Lemmy to life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It may never really "die". Digg still exists, MySpace still exists, aol still exists. It will just slowly wither, the user base will get worse and worse, and its value as a resource will diminish. It's not about reddit anymore, its about getting good people to come here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The sun rises, then sets.

Reddit's sunset appears nigh.

Thanks for the laughs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This is my first day on beehaw, and I'm planning to shift as much of what I previously did on reddit to this platform or others. Hopefully that will allow me to abandon reddit completely. I'm looking forward to learning more about this place and seeing how it develops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dN5sn37vNGs Doing my part.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

useful link: wired - How to Download Your Reddit Data

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Does that include your saved posts? That's what I'm worried about losing the most.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Was going to send someone at work an interesting article which was linked from Reddit but the subreddit was shutdown. I hate that reddit is doing this, and I hope more subs shut down permanently for protest so that reddit can't just "wait it out", but man is it inconvenient as hell.