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Efforts to promote fediverse-based alternatives were marred with paranoia after Reddit banned users and subreddits related to Lemmy and Kbin. [31] On June 12, over 7,000 subreddits went private, including Reddit's largest subreddit, r/funny. Other large subreddits that chose to go private include r/aww, r/gaming, and r/science.
At the time, the subreddit had over 470,000 members, including some who joined after r/GenderCritical was banned. r/SocialJusticeInAction, a sister subreddit to TumblrInAction, was also banned. Reddit user Hatman, a former moderator of both communities, alleged that Reddit banned both subreddits because of their discussions about transgender ...
The subreddit was banned soon afterwards. Reddit declined to comment, but directed the BBC to a public post it had made following the ban. "Over the last few days, we've seen an increase in ...
Reddit temporarily banned a popular community after users threatened staffers at Elon Musk's DOGE. Musk said the members of r/WhitePeopleTwitter had "broken the law." The subreddit is now back ...
On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47]
Huffman later admitted that Reddit was aware that the site was a target of Russian propagandists, and users of the website criticized Reddit for concealing Russian activity on the website and for not working fast enough to ban extremist communities. When asked why the r/The_Donald community was not banned from the website, Huffman replied that ...
Where fans can watch NFL streams for free: Although the NFL subreddit isn't available anymore, there are still places where fans can go to watch games for free. Fans can use the Yahoo! Sports App ...
Beginning in 2015, Reddit banned several communities on the site ("subreddits") for violating the site's anti-harassment policy. [13] A 2017 study published in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, examining "the causal effects of the ban on both participating users and affected communities," found that "the ban served a number of useful purposes for Reddit" and ...