Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

  • albsen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    2 years ago

    No matter what this guy says or does, millions have switched to Lemmy not only is it like reddit, its better, its what reddit used to be.

    Now, all will calm down for reddit but the boat started to leak and many will not go back. Just like many didn’t go back to twitter. We will see a slow and steady increase of fediverse activity.

    This is truly the web3 we all deserved.

    • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      2 years ago

      Not to put a damper on, but it’s more like 50k who started posting on lemmy in the past week for a total of 110k. We basically doubled the user count, but still are an order of magnitude away from 1 million.

      • albsen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Well, maybe the 1000000 contained a bit of marketing but the point is that many of the people discussing this here probably didn’t know Lemmy existed 3 weeks ago and that number will only increase. There is nothing that can stop the fediverse from eventually overtaking everything else as its not a single entity. Also, growth may not be exclusive either, its not required for reddit to fail so that fedi can succeed. They can coexist.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I think Lemmy still has a lot of wrinkles to iron out before we can even say “close to”, but hey, everything’s gotta start somewhere. Here’s hoping.

    • lowpassEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      This is truly the web3 we all deserved.

      I hate that web3 was taken by the crypto idiots. Federation makes so much more sense as “web3”