Hopefully I’m posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

  • apis@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Curious about the subs that have reverted to public already… r/stocks just now & saw a few revert last night.

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      1 year ago

      I know some subreddits are just locking new submissions, not going private. Does this tool track that, or exclusively those that go private?

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        1 year ago

        This makes a lot of sense. I was curious about this too, but didn’t want to give reddit any traffic during the protest by checking out any of the subs to see what’s going on.

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        1 year ago

        It must track only the ones that are private. It doesn’t show Explain Like I’m Five as green. They said they would leave a stickied post that is informative about the protest and block all new submissions.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I’m going to guess just private, because automatically assessing how a sub is being moderated would be very hard.