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Does this actually affect subscribers to sub-reddits?

If this is extended indefinitely I would expect competing sub-reddits to form.




Considering spez has shown before he doesn’t really care for Reddit’s rules that are applied to the rable and he can do what he wants (like editing others posts), I fully expect the permanently blacked out subs to have new ownership and become public again before too long.


I unsubscrided from a few subs that weren't doing the blackout


I'm reading new ones that aren't doing the blackout. Need for content didn't change.


I browse new posts on HN instead


r/news and r/worldnews didn't blackout.


I’m happy that 90% of the subs I sub to joined the blackout.

But some subs like r/comics are strangely boot licky despite how community engaged the mod team seemed to be. Automatically removing requests about the blackout and not even entertaining the discussion.




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