#Subreddit Blackout

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loud light
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Copied from the r/OutOfTheLoop writeup

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price of access to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader, potentially even Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) and old.reddit.com on desktop too. This threatens to make a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free. As OOTL regularly hits the front page of reddit, we attract a lot of spammers, trash posts, bots and trolls, and we rely on our automod bot and various other scripts to remove over thirty thousand inappropriate posts from our subreddit.

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours, others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This is not something moderators do lightly. We all do what we do because we love Reddit, and many moderators truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what they love.

cobalt cobalt
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the hell..

sand bronze
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this is crazy

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no more lyft

cobalt cobalt
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as long as the beyonce subreddit doesn’t go down

loud light
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They should.

sand bronze
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BYE

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yeah

loud light
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Lemme check

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oof, looks like they aren't

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Doesn't look super active anyway>

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Oh wait, it is

sand bronze
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thebachelor dead

loud light
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300K subs too

sand bronze
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wow

ripe scaffold
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One minute till midnight

loud light
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Yeah a minute till midnight CDT

neon token
loud light
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So a bunch more will show up

sand bronze
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isolatedvocals tayadmire

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wtf toxicredwolf

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get motivated

loud light
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r/GetMotivated and r/asoiaf gone

sand bronze
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ahhh theyre all going

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this is so cool

neon token
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I barely use reddit but i’m super invested in this

loud light
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It's Avengers Assemble vibes

ripe scaffold
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Help not geniusinvokationTCG 😭

cobalt cobalt
sand bronze
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no more serial killers!

ripe scaffold
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It’s midnight

loud light
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Yoga down

sand bronze
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yoga banned

loud light
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NO MORE YOFA

sand bronze
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hooray

cobalt cobalt
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wtf bro

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so it’s all timed ?

loud light
ripe scaffold
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Has pics gone dark yet

loud light
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Yes

ripe scaffold
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I’m just waiting on that

loud light
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Have been for an hour or so

cobalt cobalt
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um

ripe scaffold
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Yesssss

loud light
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They havent gone private, they're just not accepting new submissions

cobalt cobalt
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so each one is just gonna go down 1 by 1 i’m assuming

ripe scaffold
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Oh

loud light
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So read-only mode

sand bronze
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gotta go eat dinner bye y'all

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hope to see some more big subs gone by the time im back

loud light
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r/StableDiffusion down

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No more AI art

sand bronze
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btw you should pin the link to the twitch stream

cobalt cobalt
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oh..

loud light
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Oh yeah

loud light
ripe scaffold
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Is askreddit gonna go down

loud light
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AskReddit will not go down.

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They are Not Based.

ripe scaffold
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💀💀

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No the website broke

tidal night
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Hopefully there‘s more data and cool graphs.

loud light
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Stream has died

valid forge
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Will r/TaylorSwift return after 48 hours or will they extend it indefinetly

loud light
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You should ask the mods

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of the subredit

tidal night
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It is going dark.

loud light
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r/books is down

neon token
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How many are going down? All of them?

tidal night
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Not all.

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Right now it‘s at 5780/7265.

sand bronze
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Why does the tracker still say that r/pics is public

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oh nvm

loud light
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Because it is public

sand bronze
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mhm

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but they banned new posts

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yeah

tidal night
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I need to get used to not using reddit anymore.

sand bronze
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what does the home page look like now?

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with all the big subs gone

neon token
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How long is this gonna happen for?

loud light
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At least a couple days

heavy urchin
sand bronze
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nice to see people mentioning it

heavy urchin
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keep in mind i'm not signed in

tender dock
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1001 left

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1000 more now

olive nexus
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Idk whats the word covered but wtf 😭

sand bronze
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the sub for her legs did not go private it seems

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according to reddark

median whale
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Today is june 12th. The subreddit blackout is today

median whale
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I support this protest that ask subreddits to go private in protest of the policies of reddit admins

keen sierra
steel cargo
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i support this decision, especially since im a reddit browser user lol

steel cargo
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all of the subreddits im in went private, this is what it looks like now

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it feels.. lonely

sour patrol
tidal night
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Love to see it!

tiny viper
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all my feed posts are from 9h ago lol

tender dock
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im staying off reddit

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thinking about deleting my account

sour patrol
vestal hearth
tidal night
sand bronze
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Does that mean they won’t do anything, even if the subs go dark for several weeks?

vestal hearth
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Yes

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Striking and boycotting don't work

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what a shocker

sand bronze
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It’s better than doing nothing

wicked junco
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Wasnt the blackout meant to be only 48 hours. What time did the blackout start on monday

halcyon nexus
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I thought the sub would be back today. Anyone have news