Dan GillmorJun 14, 2023

After Reddit's beyond-arrogant CEO dismissed the subreddit blackout as just posturing, moderators of discussions extended the blackout. This is the only sensible response to the company's contempt.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759674/reddit-mods-blackout-protest-extended-indefinitely

Please stay the course.

For my part, I'm canceling my Reddit account and looking at decentralized alternatives.

Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

Moderators of many Reddit communities are pledging to keep their subreddits private or restricted indefinitely. In response to a Tuesday post on the r/ModCoord subreddit, users are chiming in to say that their subreddits will remain dark past Wednesday.

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Show threadNorcalPM ☑️ 
@dangillmor I’ve spent the last several days playing around with Lemmy (beehaw.org instance) and K-bin (main instance and a new one set up by @supernovae
readit.buzz) and I have to say that they are certailnly feasible replacements for Reddit. Still a little sparse on content and needs better 3rd party app support, but I get the same warm and fuzzy feeling there that I get here - Lots of intelligent and decent people and very few trolls and miscreants, at least for now.
Jun 14, 2023 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadBiggestBulb 💡🏳️‍🌈🧑‍💻Jun 15, 2023
@norcalpm @dangillmor @supernovae I've also been on kbin quite a lot, and so far I love it. For now, most posts seem to be in the Reddit and RedditBlackout communities there, but hopefully in a month we'll have a more even spread of posts so it'll be just like "home" was
Show threadalok ✔️Jun 15, 2023
@norcalpm @dangillmor @[email protected] I'm still fediverse illiterate. Is my understanding correct that kbin instances are in their own little universe? That is, it has nothing to do with Mastodon instances?