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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@dangillmor I subscribed to a rather small subreddit. After a brief discussion with the mods, someone decided to open an alternative forum in a self-hosted server.

Currently it has like 20 subscribers or less (compared to the 10K subscribers the official forum has), but it's a start.

Even if the discussions are brief, it does feel like a community, and one with the guarantee that it won't be taken down by a big corporation.

This wouldn't have happened without the blackout.

Slowly but surely, community leaders are starting to wake up.

Jun 15, 2023 at 12:27amWeb