Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote “yes” to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer.

Edit: Looking at the mods most recent post, they’re still putting up a fight! And all new posts have 0 upvotes and I can’t see comments from RiF anyway. Can anyone else see anything from other reddit apps?

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    Unfortunately the protest seems to basically be done. I think Mods should have had a plan to come back but to “quiet quit” and allow communities to go to shit to prove that what they do has value. Plus it would be much harder for Reddit to control that or identify where it’s being done.

    Unfortunately it seems there was no real plan beyond the 2 day blackout, which should have been a starting point not a finish line.

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      I’d bet when the 3rd party apps are actually gone, we’ll get a second wind. People haven’t been forced to use the shitty app yet.

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        My thought too. Having every 3rd post be an ad gets old, and the realities of how shitty a platform it is will set in quick. Plus old.reddit is next. Many people in the browser still use that. The future of RES is also in question.

        Can you imagine having to use new Reddit and not having RES? only thing that’ll be missing is the popup that says to turn your ad blocker off…

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        I’m about to go on vacation until the end of the month, but I’m probably just gonna try to step away from social media in general and just read books more instead. These ghouls are just taking a note from Twitter not completely tanking after Elon did evil anti-competitive shit and figuring they can do the same, so the only way to show them otherwise is to withdraw any support or attention you give them.

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          I have read 3 books since the blackout. I didn’t realize how much space and time Reddit was taking from me, considering I’m also using kbin and beehaw now.

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          What is going on? I’ve seen this comment five times in the thread but I go to your profile I only see one?

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            Not the person you’re talking to, but I see the same issue with your comment (the one I’m replying to now) being duplicated, but not showing on your profile.

            Probably just ongoing growth issues causing a glitch or four.

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        To clarify, reddark is not showing all subreddits, just subreddits that committed to going dark. There’s greater than 100k active subreddits.

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        Big subs like r/funny coming back online is a big deal though. Plus the general sentiment in the comments has seemingly shifted away from “fuck Reddit” to “fuck the mods” which is exactly what the admins want.

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          But all the people who actually provide good content and care about reddit being good have been alienated, so the people that are left in for a fun surprise. Hey, why isn’t anybody posting good content anymore? But, but… but… I’m entitled to good content… what do you mean I actually have to participate?

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      June 30th is the big day, maybe they’ll make another attempt. On an app that’s all about just shooting the shit, and not giving too many shits about others due to anyonmity, Reddit/Spez were counting on the “I don’t give a shit” mentality to stick around on Reddit.

      So with that said, I’d rather not give a shit about Reddit and have this just be a catalyst for people who even give a few shits about the internet or just decency, to head here… then feel better about not giving a shit about a lot of shit except whatever shit you’re into, on a platform that promotes better, less greedy, less out-to-get-you type shit.