Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

  • acargitz
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    622 years ago

    When I moved to Mastodon, I stopped caring about the Twitter dumpster fire. It was great.

    I am trying to do the same with Lemmy, to forget about Reddit. It’s gone. We are here now.

    • Linuxduck
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      192 years ago

      So far I’m not disappointed moving to lemmy. The only thing I haven’t found yet is an equivalence to oddly satisfying but I’m sure it’ll pop up someday

      • @[email protected]
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        152 years ago

        I am still wondering where all the cat picture communities are. Like cute animal pictures. That is pretty much the only thing that keeps my wife hooked on Reddit.

      • Ataraxia
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        42 years ago

        Heck just post something oddly satisfying doesn’t even need to be anywhere specific. I browse all. I never really stick to subscribed.

        • Linuxduck
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          22 years ago

          I don’t know where to find them and honestly don’t want to. I appreciate the work that others did to post and will wait till that happens. If I see one I’ll start a sub but till then I wait : P

    • ddh
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      182 years ago

      In one of the lifeboats, it’s hard not to look back at the Titanic

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      That’s a noble sentiment but in the words of Dave Chappelle “I’m petty and my family is to.”