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/

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    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.

    meaning: the users are our enemy and they hate us…

    No Steve, we just hate management, that’s who better not wear reddit gear in public… Not the rank and file who don’t make the braindead decisions that kill platforms.

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      I thought I was the only one thinking he is painting a clear image of the enemy. Together we will get through what they have done!

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        Exactly. He’s creating a “common enemy”. But legit we’re all here sitting on our bums, closing our subs and moving to lemmy (or equivalence)

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          the “or equivalence” got me now. Is there something? I’m curious, I love competition, so I want to give it a try

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            Sorry I didn’t keep that info in my head. I read a few from the reddark discord, went to the first one and was happy.

            My best guess is to do a search for:

            federated community

            Or:

            Communities like lemmy

            Third idea to search:

            federated community -lemmy

            The - removes the results from the search that match lemmy

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      They want people to think the blackout etc. is not done by reasonable people, but by evil aggressive people.