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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 6 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.753s | source | bottom
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sandoze ◴[22 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36435854[source]▶
We’ve come along way from running our own web rings and PHPBBs. The internet was our audience but then we put it in the hands of companies looking to profit off our niche communities and now we’re having a leopards ate our face moment.

My unpopular opinion is Reddit is making the right move and likely their only move. Moderators got what they signed up for and once a community was created and they owed it to their communities to hand over the keys when they ‘quit’ in protest. In the end, anyone unhappy with how Reddit handled the API situation should have walked instead of sticking around to watch Rome burn.

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alfalfasprout ◴[22 Jun 23 17:49 UTC] No.36436008[source]▶
...except communities overwhelmingly supported protesting reddit's policies. You've bought into the provably wrong propaganda reddit is putting out about admins going rogue.
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1. sandoze ◴[22 Jun 23 17:55 UTC] No.36436109[source]▶
There were communities on Reddit that did a poll in Discord on whether or not they should go private. Given the where and who the audience was, what voices do you think were ‘overwhelming’ representative?

In the end it was a way for many moderators to hijack a community and transfer it to their next pet social space (Discord seems to be the current favorite).

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2. JustBreath ◴[22 Jun 23 18:09 UTC] No.36436316[source]▶
It's not "hijacking" if it's the community they curated.
3. Applejinx ◴[22 Jun 23 18:16 UTC] No.36436438[source]▶
The ones I was in, asked what to do ON reddit, and I personally saw subreddits vote to go private.

It would depend on the subreddit. r/stoicism (aka r/bro-icism ;) ) seemed very unimpressed and self-involved, and didn't see how the concept of 'virtue' entered into it. r/datingoverfifty overwhelmingly sided with its mods, in part because that subreddit was so actively moderated that women over fifty could post there without getting harassed, and scam artists were quickly run off by the mods. As such, that subreddit had experienced moderation as a positive force and trusted its mods' opinions, and its mods were repeatedly in touch with the subreddit explaining what they wanted to do and why, and asking whether they had user support.

Looks like we saw different experiences, is all I'll say.

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4. isanjay ◴[22 Jun 23 18:33 UTC] No.36436679[source]▶
> The ones I was in, asked what to do ON reddit, and I personally saw subreddits vote to go private.

This has been my experience too.

5. why_zoia_fan ◴[22 Jun 23 18:56 UTC] No.36437019[source]▶
I don't understand what you have to gain from lying about this interaction elsewhere. Why is the truth so impossible for you to bear? The community repeatedly asked (and STILL is asking) in Discord and Reddit for capable moderators to take over. No one has stepped up. It's fine. That's how communities work. You alone do not get to dictate what a group does. I wish you could communicate what your real deal is because it's not the "hijacking" of a community (which isn't even yours???). Perhaps stop trying to make this all about you. How sad.
6. luc4sdreyer ◴[23 Jun 23 06:38 UTC] No.36443576[source]▶
Not sure why they went the discord route. That's not what some big subs did. For example, /r/nottheonion (definitely not niche) simply pinned a single post with three comments to simulate a poll. 88% (87.3k votes) supported continuing the blackout.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/148w58w/vote_s...