“Ok guys, if we take the site down they can’t have a blackout: It’s brilliant!”
-Spez probably
We did it, reddit!
…wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
we are reddit in some ways
In all the ways that matter, the users and quality content are its heart. Take that away and it’s more like UnDeadit.
We’re more reddit than reddit
Big brain move
They’re likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They’ve gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They’re not about to start now, especially if they’re concerned about costs.
Not paying mods gave them an out to not be a publisher.
If your company is the one doing the moderation, then you become responsible for what is on your website, and that means spez would have to get rid of the Nazis :(.
Replacing them all with automod
u/Spez-autoGPT joined to the thread.
THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN THE SYSTEM… IS DOWN
Aggressive techno noises
Strong Bad at his finest
The Cheat is grounded!
how long was it? i heard about it earlier but when i checked it worked fine
About an hour.
While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying “report created”. I didn’t press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. 😖
same thing happened to me on another post! Not sure what I clicked…
It’s funny that it works normally on Apollo for me 😎
What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)
Reddit free tier usage reached
I think it’s ridiculous that it’s actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: “Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout”
Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
It’s back up again… DANG!
Edit: And DOWN again lmao
Its been having issues for days. I discovered as much while deleting all my old post and comments.
Is it possible someone launched a DDoS attack against Reddit?
LMFAOSubreddit mods win. Fatality.
Some possibilities:
- Some fool thinks it’s a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
- Some Reddit admin thinks it’s a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
- The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
- Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.
Or they took it offline to “hide” all the blacked out subreddits. Some had images about the third party apps as their only post, which was on the front page. By going offline it makes it seem like more of a technical issue rather than a protest.
It could be that their infrastructure is set up to optimize showing data on the typically most popular subreddits.
Using Occam’s Razor, I’d bet on the last option.
Or the third.
