• Kushan@beehaw.org
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    The subs going dark should have only been half of the protest. Users should have also stayed away from the site but I don’t think that was really coordinated.

    The number of new posts didn’t drop much, the comments dropped a bit more but only by like 20%, which isn’t a lot given the amount of subs that went dark. Reddit doesn’t care about subs, they care about users and it seems engagement was still pretty high.

    The next protest should be to all users to stop using the site. Drop the users and they’ll start to listen.

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        1 year ago

        I went back to post on the “We’re back from the Blackout” posts to go let them know about the new communities that were started up here.

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          I did that for a few that I’m interested in and got downvoted immediately. There’s definitely some bot like activity trying to flood content/organic growth on the communities polling/figuring out what’s next, so that users would flock back. They are also pushing back on alternatives when a good ol person would be just curious/happy/relieved that there’s some semblance of carry-over away from Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Honest question, (I don’t expect you to know) how many of those were some form of bot?

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        1 year ago

        Nobody really knows, but I personally don’t think there were any more bots on Monday than there was a week earlier. It’s a nice story that users dropped with the subs going dark, but I think it might be wishful thinking on our part. To my knowledge there’s zero evidence to suggest that they were mostly bots.

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          The submissions remaining steady while comments dropped off a cliff is eyebrow raising, however given how much the site struggled to handle so many private subs from a technical perspective, I strongly suspect reddit didn’t really do much ahead of the blackout. I think the steady submissions compared to the decreased comments tell us more about an average day of reddit how many submissions are bot submitted than it tells us about a change in bot behavior that day.