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  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Trace it to the root of the problem, if the subreddits going dark took the servers down, then what made all the subreddits go dark 🤔

    • BattleOften@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      My guess is that it didn’t. I wonder if all of the subreddits going dark left the front page and r/all open to god knows what from more unsavory subs, and when Reddit realized that it was happening, pulled the plug until they were able to filter out anything less-than-corporate-allowable on the front page.