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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: 1.166s | source
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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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cragfar ◴[22 Jun 23 18:14 UTC] No.36436390[source]▶
Maybe some did but the support is vastly overblown. r/nba did a poll (never stickied it) and 8,000 people voted. 72% in favor of privating the subredddit. On a random Thursday afternoon it has 33,000 people online. And the polls were posted in r/modcoord.
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1. nosecreek ◴[22 Jun 23 18:55 UTC] No.36437000[source]▶
It seems to me a lot of subs also said they were closing for 2 days, but never re-opened. I understand that logic, but because the subreddits have stayed close there is no way for that community to indicate if they support the ongoing protest. There's a big difference between voting 'yes' to closing for 48 hours vs permanently.