this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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First they came for /r/pics ... now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

Quite some years ago I'd realised that amongst the problems with using Reddit as a personal blogging space (my avatar here is a relic of that, if you'd not put the two together) was that I do not in fact have any permanent claim to that space.

Reddit's previous policies of moderator re-assignment bothered me.  The policies apparently instituted September 2022 and being rolled out aggressively in recent days ... have not weakened my concerns.

And, checking in now, I find a day-old modmail to /r/dredmorbius, a subreddit which only ever was my own personal posts with comments from a few friends, and about 1,000 subscribers ... has received a notice to reclaim by /u/Modcodeofconduct, screenshot attached here.

I have not abandoned the sub.  I had closed it in protest of Reddit's continued failings and war against its volunteer moderators and general community.

And I will not go quietly.

#Reddit #FuckReddit #ModCodeOfConduct #RedditStrike #RedditBlackout

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think many steps ahead, nice. Others should consider this as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ha. I guess thinking ahead is my trade :-) I'm a Principal Engineer, and much of my job is to think about how a software architecture will look in a few months or a year from now. I often say "It's very lonely living in the future all the time", because people usually think about their current project and current task, not what's ahead of them that far out.

Sorry, I ramble. :-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Reddit's future is so bleak. You made the right choice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Software tester here. My wife will sometimes refer to me as "unlikely scenario guy". And not necessarily because of my career choice. :-D