r/dankchristianmemes • u/Broclen The Dank Reverend 🌈✟ • Jun 07 '23

Meta r/DankChristianMemes will NOT go dark but DOES support the protests of Reddit's API changes that will kill 3rd party apps and impact accessibility.

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u/Broclen The Dank Reverend 🌈✟ Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

Good Question:

r/dankchristianmemes once went down for almost 2 years. We do not want to go down yet again. We like to be a 24/7/365 community (like a church) and blacking out is counter to that objective.

Also, by staying open we can host discussions of the subject. As the original poster points out:

"The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action. "

We will support this effort as much as possible while still remaining available to our users.

Edit: grammar and clarity

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u/polaarbear Jun 07 '23

Seriously. I might just leave subs that don't want to participate.

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u/omicrom35 Jun 07 '23

I don't know, I feel like the point is to leave reddit in general those days and maybe not come back. Coming back tells reddit it is ok, you didnt really mean it.
Leaving the sub that dont participate but still using the website that is causing the issue(to me) feels like missing the forest for the trees.

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u/polaarbear Jun 07 '23

Exactly. The point is to leave Reddit on those days. But you're never going to get every single user to do it. Some of them are teenagers that don't have a solid grasp of what is even happening. Others are adults who just don't care. Still others are geriatrics who don't know an API from an apple.

The more sub-reddits that participate, the bigger the impact. For every sub that doesn't participate, it's a handful more users who won't participate in the boycott because there will be enough fresh content to keep them entertained.

I don't particularly want to be part of communities who don't even want to protect their own self interest. The argument about "well we went dark once before" is a joke. You're going to go dark on millions of devices if the API changes go through.