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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 2 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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chankstein38 ◴[22 Jun 23 18:13 UTC] No.36436380[source]▶
I think this title is a bit sensationalized. They're going after subreddits who have gone dark for the protest. That's different than "coming for individual personal subreddits" at least from my read of it. In my mind that would mean there is something they're doing specifically because they're individual personal subreddits. Like "You can't have a subreddit with one poster" kind of deal and banning them because they're not active enough or something.

In this case I understand it can be read as "Reddit aren't just going after big closed subs anymore" but the title, to me, doesn't make that obvious enough. I clicked it thinking "Oh no now people can't even have their own subs?!" when in reality it's just that one of the blackout holdouts is getting called on still holding out with the ~~new~~ not-new rule that they have stated they're going to start applying.

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1. davidgerard ◴[23 Jun 23 01:35 UTC] No.36441721[source]▶
No, this is literally an individual personal subreddit.
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2. chankstein38 ◴[23 Jun 23 17:56 UTC] No.36450185[source]▶
I think we're talking about a distinction in a different spot. My distinction was that rather than "They're shutting down personal subreddits" this post was more "Reddit is even coming for mods who blackout their personal subreddits"

I do understand that they are talking about their own personal subreddits. I appreciate the clarification though!