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An open source website to watch subreddits going dark

Looks like someone threw up a tracker checking on subreddit going dark. Live status looks interesting.

Edit: I’ve been watching this for a while now, can’t take my eyes off it. Looks like the next big block of subs is each hour mark with big one at mid-night PST (e.g., California). Gonna be fun 🤡

  • Skray
    2•1 year ago

    /r/PathofExile announced they’re locking themselves indefinitely. The mods have setup a Lemmy instance to replace the sub and are directing users there now.
    There are a handful of others going dark indefinitely as well.

    • SyoOP
      1•1 year ago

      Of course PoE players would min/max to the extreme. Never expected anything less. Big balls move.

      • Skray
        0•1 year ago

        It’ll be interesting if it stays. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reddit admins force mods to reopen the subs, or just outright remove the offending mods.
        They have done that before. KotakuInAction was shut down once by it’s founder who didn’t like the direction of the sub and the admins removed the mod that did it and reopened the sub with a new head mod.

        • Syan
          1•1 year ago

          I’d love to see Reddit try to replace 25K+ mods along with all their tools and bots. Not happening. The most they’ll do is whine about it, but I’m pretty sure even that won’t happen because their lawyers are definitely telling them to stfu right now.

          Also this is my first comment (is it even called a comment on here? lol) on kbin after seeking refuge from Reddit, so hello kbin! Obligatory fuck u/spez.

    • shinoby
      1•1 year ago

      Did you join? My request wasn’t accepted by now.

      • Skray
        2•1 year ago

        I did originally create an account there, but it was when they announced it. I’d reccomend reaching out to Multiplicity on the PoE discord as he runs the PoE lemmy server.

        You should be able to post directly there using your current account though, it should be federated with most lemmy instances and kbin.

  • Phobos
    2•1 year ago

    So glad I don’t have to feel guilty opening the reddit app to take a peak now.

    “3265/6472 subreddits are currently dark.”

  • Aeryl
    2•1 year ago

    Hope more communities decide to keep it private indefinitely

  • minorninth
    1•1 year ago

    The fact that I’m enjoying this discussion means that I’m still addicted to something Reddit-like. I hope this or some other alternative really takes off in the next few days, otherwise I think many people will just reluctantly return to Reddit

    • DarkThoughts
      1•1 year ago

      I’ve seen a lot of growth here, despite the ddos protection causing issue with syncing to other instances. So my migration plan will be to use kbin for all I can, especially discussions / being an active user, while using Reddit for topics that I don’t see have a good replacement yet (while checking frequently if that changes). The goal being to pull out of more and more subs on Reddit until I can just leave the entire thing behind. Maybe there will be the odd sub that will be lost / left behind, but that would be a minor price at the end of the day.

  • Emu
    1•1 year ago

    I hope kbin stops being a reddit monitoring site. Half my page is full of posts about reddit on non-related subs, and I don’t care about that platform anymore.

  • cthonctic
    1•1 year ago

    I kind of love the selection of subreddits that are still available:
    /r/amitheasshole, /r/mildlyinfuriating, /r/therewasanattempt, /r/whatcouldgowrong, /r/publicfreakout, /r/quityourbullshit, among others

    It paints such a lovely picture of the current situation! :D