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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by oxygen_crisis on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:13PM (#36314338)
> To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark)

That's out of the 8838 that made a pledge to go dark. Those ~400 are just the ones that went "restricted" (read-only) instead of private, or flaked on the pledge.

There are over a million subreddits, the blackout doesn't even reach one percent of them.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by Ataraxic on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:21PM (#36314511)
Anyone can make a subreddit if it's not been taken but you're right in that the real impact is by # of users affected.

I think if what I read is true that ~ 1/2 of the top subreddits went dark that is a big outage. FWIW my reddit is not really usable except for 1 sub that I read.

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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by norgie on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:23PM (#36315541)
Your denominator is pretty much useless in terms of measuring user impact since subreddit subscriber size is not evenly distributed.
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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by graeme on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:07PM (#36316212)
It's about 70% of the largest subreddits: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
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Re:Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will ... by meepmorp on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:54PM (#36318084)
There are plenty still open, but many of those million are dead anyway. I've made half dozen and abandoned them all.
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