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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the protests made it clear that letting moderators make their communities private at their discretion “could be used to harm Reddit at scale” and that work on this feature was “accelerated” because of the protests.

Because Reddit admins deserved that harm. We've handed them all this free data and resource and they decided it was theirs.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

“Those who make community protest impossible will make hacks inevitable."

― John F. Kennedy, pretty much