"Ok guys, if we take the site down they can't have a blackout: It's brilliant!"
-Spez probably
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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...wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
we are reddit in some ways
We're more reddit than reddit
Reddit 2.0
In all the ways that matter, the users and quality content are its heart. Take that away and itβs more like UnDeadit.
Lemmy for president!!
Who the fuck is Lemmy?
They're likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They've gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They're not about to start now, especially if they're concerned about costs.
Not paying mods gave them an out to not be a publisher.
If your company is the one doing the moderation, then you become responsible for what is on your website, and that means spez would have to get rid of the Nazis :(.
Id bet their brand new API has a few horrible bugs or the system charging accounts is too slow for the real world.
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What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)
Lemmy is love
Lemmy is life
Readdit, never even heard it
Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now
Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol' death hug right now
Will save this when there's c/AngryUpvote opens lol
Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn't prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior π
I think it's ridiculous that it's actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"
I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.
No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.
The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.
There was some kind of cookie consent popup on old.reddit.com and it said "go to the new reddit to set preferences" or something like that and i clicked it without reading properly and got sent to new reddit.
What a shit website.... I will never use new reddit. Get fucked spez
I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don't know me as well as they could. Also if I'm not interested they aren't distracting
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THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN
Aggressive techno noises
The Cheat is grounded!
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Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
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While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying βreport createdβ. I didnβt press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. π
same thing happened to me on another post! Not sure what I clicked...
Subreddit mods win. Fatality.
It's my fault apparently
Always hated that image on the error page. Blaming the user when they are the ones that fucked up. Server errors are never the users fault
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how long was it? i heard about it earlier but when i checked it worked fine
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But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.
If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesnβt typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I'm pretty impressed with it so far! I'd love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.
This was beautiful and totally unsurprising.
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