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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 1 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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1. dredmorbius ◴[22 Jun 23 17:34 UTC] No.36435768[source]▶
Note that "private" has two meanings here.

Private, as in a personal subreddit that can be read by others but not posted to.

And private in the sense that the subreddit is not viewable to the world at large.

In this case, the subreddit was previously "private-as-in-personal", but not "private-as-in-not-viewable". Following the Reddit Strike, I'd taken it private-as-in-not-viewable.

As my Fediverse toot notes, I'd been very aware that Reddit could reclaim the subreddit according to its rules then in place. The pinned posts on the sub, for 2 and 3 years respectively as of this past February, discussed that amongst other concerns. The Wayback Machine shows those here:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20220224161047/https://old.reddi...>

One of those posts specifically addressed my preferences for how my subreddit should allowed to die and rest in ... ouch, typo, "piece". That post received an admin response saying that it would be a good candidate for just that.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230612102634/https://old.reddi...>

(I'm OP in the event it's not obvious.)