each community should be working on a lifeboat for themselves. it’s one thing to threaten to go dark indefinitely, it’s something else to articulate a process for off-platform organizing/planning and just goofing off away from reddit admins. if the guy who owns the party house wants to charge admission, go find another party house.

i was looking at some sub, i can’t remember but it was something skill related and the fear of users mass deleting their own posts was setting in with the wake of subs going private. subs going private is potent but ultimately symbolic. the admins can seize control and turn it back on. the actual threat is for users to overwrite -> delete their posts/comments and leave. it would be catastrophic for the social value of reddit as a hub of content.

and the 3rd party api stuff that makes it possible to mass delete is going away at the end of the month. so there’s a clock on this tactic.