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/

  • Oxff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure many will go back to Reddit but some wont. I for one will be staying on Lemmy as I’ve found it a breath of fresh air.

    • 1bluepixel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same! The mood here reminds me of the good old days when everyone on Reddit wasn’t a cynical asshole.

      Jerboa is already a better app than Reddit’s official app, so I’m quite happy to give the Lemmy and Jerboa devs time to iron out the kinks.

    • Pixlbabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think I’ll comment here but mainly lurk there at times. It’s still good if I’m looking for something that has to do with my hobbies, unless this booms than that will change things.

    • Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same here. This morning I’ve removed my ten years worth of content from Reddit as I don’t want them to even generate the slightest bit of revenue from it, removed my account and do not feel bad about it in the slightest.

      I’m done with the way Reddit handles the community feedback and done with the “don’t you dare to have a differing opinion or we’ll downvote to oblivion” mentality that prevailed in a number of subreddits.

      • SallyTAB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I deleted one 11 year account and 3 three year accounts. The amount of absolute repeat garbage bots on all my homepage, and throughout popular was so bad, it just became Facebook, but angrier.

      • Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Is there a fast way to delete comments? I found a nuke Reddit extension but only for chrome and it only did posts. I have a shit ton of comments out there still.

        • Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I used shreddit.com, you don’t need a premium account to remove all your comments. You can just select ‘all content’ from the dropdown that allows you to select from which point in time you want to nuke your stuff.

    • Mallowmarsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m so glad to not see ads all over the place. I’m also glad to not see low-level top comments; so far the conversations have been of higher quality, they’re more thought-out. I haven’t been back to Reddit since Monday, and although it’s been a learning curve and a little tough without the amount of content, I’m enjoying lemmy quite a bit.

      • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m in the same club as you…better quality content here as I’m figuring out Lemmy and Jerboa too. No more Reddit

    • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m fully committed regardless of how good the replacement is. I paid for Reddit premium every month since 2016 to try and support the thing I loved. I gave out 65+ gold before premium to also support a thing a loved.

      I cancelled premium after the AMA and deleted Apollo. No going back period.

      • mycatiskai@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        This might be why they have not seen a monetary hit yet, it won’t be until people’s premium cancellations hit that Reddit will see a cash flow issue.

        The Humanist Report on YouTube lost monetization last month and he slowly saw his subscriber count drop day by day as people’s subscriptions got canceled instead of renewed after 31 days he was somehow still at 9 subscribers. Fortunately he did a video and called out YouTube and people went on his patreon to fund him instead of him relying at all on YouTube. He got monetization back but you can never trust YouTube to not screw people.