The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide.

The mods followed suit posting the following automod message under every new post:

As ya’ll likely know, we’ve been dark to support the blackout against reddit’s antagonistic behavior towards its own userbase. The admins sent us a message today saying we must open or get removed, so here we are.

For those of you browsing this subreddit on non-official apps (Reddit is Fun, Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc), they will break on July 1st due to reddit’s new policies. We’re opening back up but will leave permanent stickies in the subreddit and threads to keep folks in the know.

Our Discord [contains link to https://discord.gg/steam] server is active, don’t forget to check it out.

Good luck and god speed.

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On visit, you quickly notice there is a community wide effort to focus on the literal topic of the given name and post about vapors, steam trains, and kitchen appliances. While posts about the gaming platform get downvoted.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    Pretty much any big sub is totally unusable. The only reason to be on Reddit is for the niche hobby subs

    • @SgtAStrawberry
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      141 year ago

      And unfortunately, those are the ones most difficult to find alternatives for.

      • @Reoru
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        71 year ago

        I absolutely resonate with both your comments, it’s the best function reddit served imo. The big mainstream subs were just content factories to create posts to doomscroll through.

    • Jeremy [Iowa]
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      21 year ago

      Can confirm. You don’t need to go far to find dog-piling groupthink ruining discussion.