From Mastodon https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110588848407336816

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

  • pterodactyl@kbin.social
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’m willing to bet that they don’t actually know when a sub went private, just whether or not it currently is. I also would not be surprised if the emails are automated but going out in batches to spread the workload dealing with replies.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      2000 employees but none of them thought to go dig up last month’s backup and run a diff on the current state. Or alternately they don’t have usable backups from last month.

      I can believe it, at this point.