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/

  • blindsight@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

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

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 years ago

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

    • TechnologyClassroom@partizle.com
      1·
      2 years 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.

    • that_one_guy@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years 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.