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Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW | Tanner B ๐Ÿฆ•๐Ÿง (@objc@mastodon.social) (mastodon.social)
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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk -4 points 1 year ago

Doesn't having it private mean it wasn't a community of 150k? It was a community of 1.

I understood taking subs NSFW to keep advertising out, but taking them private was causing the community to die. Once that went beyond a few days it was time to shift platform.

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