Curious what people have left reddit use now?
I have realized, since chatGPT became a thing I think I use reddit even less now. Before I would append it to searches. I still do, but GPT is close to enough for me.
Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even useful as a protest, since the admins will just undo it the moment your protest gains traction.
Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments.
For what it's worth, we've stopped moderating our subreddit for the month of October.
Reddit fundamentally cannot figure out the role of moderators - we're either robber barons, or we're useless, or we're actively out to sabotage the company.
What we certainly are is unpaid volunteers, so we're kind of done. The reporting feature will allow users to remove posts and comments that blatantly break the rules; let someone else volunteer for awhile.
I predict old reddit is going to go away soon.