I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I’m being honest I haven’t seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it’s going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I’m trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It’s absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course…

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    1 year ago

    Seconded on this.

    I’m optimistic it will get the people at Reddit who need to see how it will affect people to see what exactly is happening.

    But the realist in me says they’ve bean-counted how many people will leave or migrate to their default apps and are willing to eat that cost back when they bring out the IPO.