Unlike many other large subreddits r/books has not made any statements about the API changes. I did try and post something about it but it ended up getting deleted. At 22.1 million users this would be a pretty significant addition to the protest.
Does anyone know why there hasn’t been anything official?
There was a post with 28k upvotes a few days ago that mods chose to ignore. I’d take that to mean they’ll be ignoring the API changes altogether.
I’m weaning myself off of reddit, regardless of what the sub mods do. Glad to find a books community here.
I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Seems like a group of readers are best equipped to step away from the internet. Even just for 2 days.
At the end of the day, the only ones who can choose to make the subreddit private are the mods, and I don’t think they’ve given any public statements on it either way. It may simply be that the mods aren’t unified on whether or not to join.
That they possibly aren’t unified is a good point since that would explain the lack of statement either way. Whether they do/don’t support it I think a clear statement is important for an issue of this scale and salience. At the moment it just seems like the whole community is ignoring it or doesn’t care which can’t be the case.
My general feeling is that the only reason to delete a thread is if it’s spam or somehow offensive to site wide rules against violence, racism, etc.
Deleting a thread because you don’t like it or it’s inconvenient is a mark of cowardace and cowards have no business being mods.
