I’ve heard only the briefest information about what is going on with Reddit. Is the blackout something that is temporarily being done by the community or is it permanent?
The blackout itself is an initiative by the community. However, from June 30th third party apps will no longer work, and many users (and moderators of many large subs) have explicitly said that they aren’t interested in continuing with the official Reddit app or site. This will cause a huge chunk of reddit users to leave. Some will go back, some won’t. Besides that, it’s a matter of principle. They’re choosing stakeholders over users.
Yeah this is a huge FU to the people that contributed to reddit. We’re not going to continue supporting a site that treats us like cattle. Reddit can suck it.
For most subreddits it is temporary blackout but some communities like one of the piracy subreddits I saw completely packed bags and the mods moved to lemmy. It’s too early to say if reddit is over or if this is just a temporary setback. Reddit may even concede and revert some of their api changes to appease the populace. Simply put, we don’t know enough yet.
Some mods are permanently or “indefinitely” closing, some are opening their subs back up tomorrow.
People here are on board with Reddit being over; that’s why many of them have jumped ship to new best friend Lemmy.
But, like, digg.com still exists. Only time will tell where if anywhere will really become the next place to be, or if Reddit will somehow recover its coolness.
The protest will be temporary for some subreddits, but indefinite for others. I don’t think that Reddit Inc. will accept the demands; instead it might force the subreddits to open again.
But in the medium- or the long-term, Reddit is over. I don’t think that the platform will recover from that. Even the ones left behind will be less eager to contribute with it, so there’ll be less content, so less encouragement to browse it, thus less content, in a downwards spiral.
“My drill is the drill that’s gonna pierce the heavens!” - Simon.
“My drill is the drill that’ll bury Reddit into hell!” - Steve “Pigboy” Huffman.
instead it might force the subreddits to open again.
Even if they do, many of the mods simply wouldn’t return to moderate. And as someone else mentioned many of the mods rely on third party apps to moderate efficiently. Without that support the subreddit a will spiral out of control with bots and spam, surely.