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60% of subreddits are still dark! Reddit activity down 30% (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by operator@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].

This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.

Glad to have found a new place to hang out!

Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up

[1] https://reddark.untone.uk/

[2] https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Reddit-Blackout-dauert-an-30-Prozent-weniger-Aktivitaet-Werbebranche-wartet-ab-9189048.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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[–] Link9454@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to wonder how much of what’s left is just repost bots and spam bots. I’ve noticed since the blackout and I’ve stopped opening the app much, I’ve gotten a lot more of those stupid onlyfan bots following me.

[–] operator@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, bots will be shut of as well.

[–] towerful@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless they are Reddit bots.
There are stories (not sure of their truth) of regional subs being started and filled with reposts translated to the regional language - to the point of idioms not making sense when translated.
There are pictures of a while string of comments from different accounts saying "time to dust off my laptop and use the web version I guess" (or something like that).

I have absolutely no doubt that Reddit is using paid actors or AI actors to generate/push content/interactions

[–] coldredlight@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That allegedly happened recently with some German language subreddit, the admins had prepopulated it with badly translated comments from a bunch of bot accounts they control. I never actually verified that was true and don't know German to verify, but that's at least a recent allegation I've seen within the past several months that is supposed to be backed by evidence.

[–] operator@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

what a world we live in, eh?