It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

    • Kwakigra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      I’m surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but Reddit can be pretty hostile almost everywhere other than small niche subs with consistent communities. Before posting a comment, I would always have to consider whether I was willing to fight about it with someone likely to snidely dismiss it through the most paper-thin lazy rhetoric. Sometimes the answer would be yes but too often it would be no.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        Oh for sure. There have been countless occasions where I’ve written out a reply, only to hit Cancel while telling myself “Nope, its just not worth it”.

        • Silviecat44@vlemmy.netEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          Honestly just a good practice to have anywhere, thinking about what you say before you say it.

          • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I agree with that! Sometimes I feel like I overthink it, if anything. I try to make it a principal of mine to have some sort of logical process that determined anything I write/say (even if said logic doesn’t make sense to everyone at first glance).

            Works great in some cases, and not so much in others… but that’s a whole other spiel to go over more later on haha.

      • idle@158436977.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Oh man so much this. I felt like I could never post a comment without getting into an argument with someone about it.

    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      For me it’s the same reason I’m more likely to contribute in smaller subreddits and that is noise.

      Kind of pointless in replying to something that has been active for 8 hours and has 2,000+ posts. And god help you if you sorted by rising and got in early then you get 100 of the same reply or irrelevant stuff latching onto your comment for visibility.

      Even if you wanted to discuss on larger subreddits the content of comments would be people falling and tripping overthemselves to make the same low effort shitty joke.