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FTA:

> the number of Reddits that have gone dark expanded from around 7,000 to more than 8,400

Annoyingly, there's no context for these numbers. Is this 10% of all subreddits? 90%? Does it cover half of all users? They're meaningless numbers that "sound big."

>>Calami+(OP)
There are millions of subreddits, but with the volume of subreddits "dark" and some of the largest ones joining in, it's likely to have had a significant effect on a majority of Reddit users, and a decent part of the wider internet. Cumulatively (adding up the member counts), 3 billion "accounts"/subscriptions have been effected.

8k is very significant

>>Calami+(OP)
All I know is that the home page for me suddenly showed subreddits I didn't even know I was subscribed to lol so I can only assume a lot were and still are absent.