There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
Those subs are going down faster than spez’s credibility
Here’s the website if you want to see the updates live without the twitch stream: https://reddark.untone.uk
Thanks! That chat stream hurt my eyes. Just hit 2500.
About 15 minutes to go for the ‘Official’ start and it’s already over 2100.
Yowsers Redddit, you dun goofed!
This is great, thank you for the info and evening entertainment.
Does anybody know what is Reddit’s userbase size? It’s difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.
it’s a bad judge IMO since people are subbed to multiple places and can be counted multiple times
reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.
As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.
There’s some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.
I’ve noticed “ELI5” also is on the list… that’s a huge one!
It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won’t have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public
I’m not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.
I’ve seen users there mocking the protest. Even outrightly being hostile to individual users who post support. And when I look at their profiles I see that they are mostly 3 or 4-year-old accounts.
It seems that you are right. The users who came into Reddit accompanying its decline, simply do not care and are part of the mindless shitposters who partially ruined the site.
There’s no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless ‘active’ means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.
My local city subreddit is always pretty active, but it hardly has any users. I think there’s lots of small, niche subs that have a decent level of activity. Just because they don’t have enough users to ever hit the frontpage is kind of immaterial to that.
2102/6001 so far.
RIP /r/IllegallySmolCats.
We really need an instance that only has communities made from the cat subs
It’s going so fast I can’t keep up. You hate to see it.
At 2044 now but bi_irl having trouble deciding
As is tradition
