Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.

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    After clicking on the link, I have a few thoughts

    • ew, gross (haven’t been to reddit in a year, and time/enshittification has not been kind to it)

    • we should consider a warning for bare reddit links

    • this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn’t have been but it was not a bug. That isn’t a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.

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      this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn’t have been but it was not a bug. That isn’t a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.

      True as that may be, it’s very suspicious that the only subs affected by this bug where porn and lgbt ones. I posit they were working off a predefined subreddit shortlist which are already on the chopping block.

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        Yes certainly. Part of the mistake was disclosing that there is some mechanism by which such specific communities can be shut down so quickly. You can disclose that capability by accident, but you can’t have that capability by accident.

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    Oh, a “bug”. Just like how Zuck’s platforms banned the word “democrat” because of a “bug”, right?

    These bugs seem oddly specific lately.

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    Ban everything.

    Say oops reverse the ban.

    Miss the ones you were actually going after while no one is looking

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    Probably collecting focused user data and making a list. Someone make me a tinfoil hat. And it only took 2 weeks for me to reach this point.

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    They remove NSFW content and they lose their whole market.

    They are not the platform they think they are.

    Reddit is basically an onlyfans ad platform.

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    Was a test run coordinated with the whitehouse to gauge public reaction. The actual purge will be coming shortly and will involve way more than reddit. All is function comrade citizen, continue at the job working.

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    I imagine they rounded up all these techcucks at a diddy type party and intimidated them.

    I’ve never seen such a spineless bunch of betas in my life. They literally folded to Trump at WTC collapse speeds.