There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.
As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.
There’s some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.
I’ve noticed “ELI5” also is on the list… that’s a huge one!
There’s no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless ‘active’ means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.
My local city subreddit is always pretty active, but it hardly has any users. I think there’s lots of small, niche subs that have a decent level of activity. Just because they don’t have enough users to ever hit the frontpage is kind of immaterial to that.
It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won’t have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public
I’m not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.
reddit likely did research beforehand, and thought that enough new users since 2017 wouldn’t care, because it’s quite clear they don’t care about losing their older userbase.