Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest

Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by AegirLeet on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:16AM (#36291659)

It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private.

I've seen some people claim that it's just the "powermods" pushing for these blackouts, but that's not my experience at all. Several medium-size subs I frequent (none of them moderated by powermods) made polls and the result was always the same: an overwhelming majority (like 90%+) of users were in favor of shutting down the subreddit.

I really hope Reddit can be saved. It'd be a shame to lose it like this.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by lawgimenez on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:06AM (#36292158)

As I have expected r/ExperiencedDevs did not go dark. Devs just can't figure out things together.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by realitythreek on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:29AM (#36292364)

r/ExperiencedDevs is such a weird place to me. It’s like the secondary school for r/CSCareerQuestions. It has builtin gatekeeping due to their goal of being for “experienced devs”. I’m also not surprised they aren’t participating.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by deelly on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:03AM (#36292771)

ExperiencedDevs will go dark until the end of the month

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/147ebxd/ex...

> It’s like the secondary school for r/CSCareerQuestions.

It started few months ago when sub suddenly become popular. A lot of... how to say it, trivial questions/topics.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by cantsingh on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:57AM (#36292682)

They appear to have gone dark for the rest of the month, unless I'm missing something.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by zwily on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:16AM (#36292921)

They have a sticky saying they’re going dark till the end of the month. Don’t know when it starts though.

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by phpisthebest on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:33AM (#36292403)

I am not going to to the site at all today, I mostly lurk in the sysadmin subreddit anyway and they have choosen not to go dark for reasons I disagree with

but regardless, I removing myself from the traffic of the site..

by the 30th I plan on archiving all my historical comments, and deleting my accounts

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Re:Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by yootyootr on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:50AM (#36292615)

Far from a Powermod, I'm a mod of a single tiny subreddit with <1,000 subscribers and took it private this morning (0800 UTC). I didn't advertise it on this site, but we agreed it was best to join the efforts.

I have mostly for the last six years used Apollo to moderate the sub, but that will not work from July onwards, I will probably not un-private the sub.

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