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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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It's not like they couldn't put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they're about to do something controversial again soon.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 69 points 1 month ago

We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.

Truly, a harm for the platform when the moderators of /r/assesgonewild take their subreddit private for a week in protest. So far up their asses.

Read: "Our users got so pissed at us that it jeopardized our IPO. Now it could actually effect something like our stock price, so fuck 'em". Seriously people, just leave