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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 4 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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amanaplanacanal ◴[22 Jun 23 17:15 UTC] No.36435483[source]▶
So… are you not allowed to have private subreddits any more? Is this their official stance?
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cortesoft ◴[22 Jun 23 17:18 UTC] No.36435521[source]▶
It wasn't private before, it was made private in protest. I think they are just automatically messaging mods of subreddits that were public before the protests and are now private.

My overall take on this is people have a weird relationship with reddit.

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CharlesW ◴[22 Jun 23 17:25 UTC] No.36435644[source]▶
> My overall take on this is people have a weird relationship with reddit.

Alternative explanation: Users may not just roll over when the platforms they've invested countless hours into start abusing them.

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1. tedunangst ◴[22 Jun 23 17:32 UTC] No.36435742[source]▶
Not sure how much choice the users have in whether reddit rolls them.
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2. alwaysbeconsing ◴[22 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36435856[source]▶
The choice they have is in whether they're around at all to be rolled.
3. bee_rider ◴[22 Jun 23 17:42 UTC] No.36435884[source]▶
They have the choice to not be users anymore.

Which seems like a bad option for Reddit, given that their only value proposition is that they have a lot of users.

4. rchaud ◴[22 Jun 23 21:27 UTC] No.36439258[source]▶
this isn't really costing users anything, unless "time spent on Reddit" is considered a good.