There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.

  • kilmister@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Does anybody know what is Reddit’s userbase size? It’s difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.

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      1 year ago

      reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.

      As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.

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        1 year ago

        There’s some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.

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        1 year ago

        There’s no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless ‘active’ means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.

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          1 year ago

          My local city subreddit is always pretty active, but it hardly has any users. I think there’s lots of small, niche subs that have a decent level of activity. Just because they don’t have enough users to ever hit the frontpage is kind of immaterial to that.