That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
One thing I did on Apollo was take advantage of the powerful filtering it provided.
I keyword filtered every politician, and hot political topic. Then for years I filtered subreddits from r/all. I filtered political subs, ragebait, “look at stupid people”, Twitter hottakes, memes, and porn (yes porn eventually pops up in all if you filter the other stuff enough).
What I had created with my years of filtering was an r/all that was actually great to see. Tons of niche original content subreddits that I’d never have thought to look for popped up. It was great seeing people posting in their communities for the enjoyment of it, not caring they were getting 5000000000 upvotes. When comments complained about r/all being trash it often took me a minute to realize that my r/all was very different than what most people saw.
I’m really going to miss that specially filtered r/all.