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Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by andrewxdiamond on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:46PM (#36296496)
7245 out of 7806 subreddits that pledged to go private have gone private. Title makes it sound like Reddit only has 7806 total subreddits
Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by starkparker on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:26PM (#36297360)
The page is implicitly weird, too; r/books, for instance, is public but actively participating in the protest by refusing to post for 48 hours. The protest isn't a public/private binary.

EDIT: Is this even a list of subreddits that "pledged to go private"? Looking at r/askscience, they never pledged to go private, just to go read-only, like r/books. So why are they and r/books even on this list?

Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by SoftTalker on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:11PM (#36297066)
Yeah but if they include the biggest subreddits it will be affecting most of their users. The long tail of small subreddits doesn't really matter if the big ones are down.
Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by dang on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:06PM (#36296946)
Ok, we've put that in the title above. Thanks!
Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by vladharbuz on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:25PM (#36297341)
Thank you, I wasn't sure if I should edit this for clarity when I posted.
Re:7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are curre... by leokennis on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:18PM (#36298374)
More interesting would be the number of registered users who have at least 10 of these 7,245 subreddits in their front page feed.

I’d wager that with these 7,245 subreddits “dark”, over 99% of Reddit users are at least somewhat impacted (fairly confident in that) but also that a large minority now face a hardly recognizable front page (hard to put a number on that).