• ForbiddenRoot ( ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml ) 
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    3 years ago

    It’d be even better if all these subreddits indefinitely go dark. As someone who grew up using the “old” internet with Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists for discussions, I am happy that decentralized way doing things might be adopted again.

      • ForbiddenRoot ( ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml ) 
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        3 years ago

        Initially at least, the subs I saw were talking of going dark only for a couple of days, with only a few stating that they will go dark indefinitely. If everyone is on board now for indefinite darkness then that’s great!

          • Random Dent ( CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) 
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            3 years ago

            I think some of them are changing that now and going dark indefinitely. I’m pretty sure I saw that r/Videos which is one of the biggest subreddits said they were going down indefinitely, and r/AskHistorians was going completely down for the two days, then staying in read-only mode indefinitely after that so people can still look up info but can’t interact with anything.

            I think that’s right, but I’m not going back to reddit to check.