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Permission now required to take subreddits private

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Re: Permission now required to take subreddits private

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Post by dmonitor »

Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even useful as a protest, since the admins will just undo it the moment your protest gains traction.

Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments.

Re: Permission now required to take subreddits private

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Post by Ukv »

dmonitor wrote: post #2

Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even useful as a protest, since the admins will just undo it the moment your protest gains traction. Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments.

I feel Reddit blocking search engines that don't pay and killing off archives and third party clients is a far more worrying long-term threat to information accessibility than the moderator blackouts that were protesting the former (unless there's more recent context I'm missing due to having moved off reddit).

Re: Permission now required to take subreddits private

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

m463 wrote: post #3

Curious what people have left reddit use now?

A combination of Lemmy, Bluesky, and most importantly, being generally less online than before. I'll no longer rely on a site enough to be seriously bothered if I need to leave because it turns as hostile as Twitter and Reddit did last year.
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