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
This happened to my ~770 people subreddit r/ntfy too. They really lost their marbles, didn’t they? I turned it back to “Public” out of fear that they’ll delete my Reddit account. I fear even “Restricted” won’t stop them. So instead, I’ll manually delete or lock new posts and direct them to the Lemmy instance. I may assign another dummy mod account too and unassign myself. Maybe that’ll give me a way to close the sub in the future.
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. :-)
Off-topic, but I love ntfy! It’s super easy to use to send notifications from a script or program anywhere
Manually deleting posts leads to them reinstating them (I think they set it up botstyle to reinstate posts from subs where mods have been warned). Editing your posts to directing to Lemmy instances leads you to being given a warning, your post being reinstated from earlier versions and then you’re kicked off of your own sub and get a shadow ban alternatively 7 day lockout.
