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[โ€“] feetongrass@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.

[โ€“] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didnโ€™t go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.

[โ€“] feetongrass@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their posts don't seem to deviate much from their usual posts. Target achieved, I guess?

[โ€“] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Don't you love it when your normal MO is the hot new thing?

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