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The front page, ie. /r/all and /r/popular a virtually indistinguishable from the same three days ago. There are memes, news, tik tok videos, sports, etc.

Power users aside, I suspect the typical reddit user's experience is virtually unchanged.

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Mainstream's reddit experience is clicking on Reddit links from Google. Many of which are dead as of right now.

According to the API, reddit post and comment frequency is higher than it was 4 days ago: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Seems like the blackout is not working even a little bit.

That's completely speculative, plus those are not the KPIs that the business gives a shit about, in terms of engagement oriented revenue. Advertisers care about impressions, and unique users, and that's it and I would bet your childrens' lives, that both have seen a statistically significant hit.

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