If you ask investors, Reddit is doing great. Its current market cap sits at nearly $22 billion, three times what it debuted at during its March 2024 IPO. Once a little-known successor to Fark and Digg, and a great place to engage in down-to-earth communication and meet interesting people, it’s now one of the most well-known social (or anti-social) media platforms in the world.
From a user perspective, though, the site is less friendly than ever. The latest change — made with zero fanfare, as usual — now allows complete strangers to reduce your account’s functionality for any reason they see fit. Now, if someone blocks you, you’re no longer able to edit, delete, or even view your own comments, with exactly zero recourse for you, the person who originally posted them.
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Reddit’s block function has prevented users from further participating in comment chains for quite some time, which already opened up the potential for abusing control over certain discussions. The latest update to blocking not only stops a user’s ability to comment further, it makes it look like they never commented at all — but only to the blocked user. Others can still see and reply to the original comment, despite its invisibility to the apparent owner.
While Reddit never announced the change, it’s seemingly been in place for some users — but not all — for varying lengths of time. Mentions of the change can be found as far back as June 2024, but got little widespread attention. Now, according to Android Police’s and others’ experience, the update appears to be rolling out even more widely.
I’m descendant of Aaron Burr’s grandfather and I don’t even like him. He was a cunt and a swindler if not with purpose (not to mention that other thing he did), why someone would choose that hill to die on I have no idea.
/Jerk: Excuse me the other thing? Wow amazing amazing you fell for Jefferson and Hamilton propaganda 🥲🤣🤣🤣 I can’t believe you fell for a CONSPIRACY THEORY the truth is that Aaron Burr was a normal person who loved his family and was the VICTIM for decades because of Jefferson and Hamilton targeted harassment campaign against this wonderful man! You are Aaron Burr’s descendent and FAMILY and the lies about him were so successful that even his descendants fell for them. Innocent until proven guilty and Burr was DECLARED innocent!!!😇 Why are you so mad and upset and obsessed with Arron Burr what is wrong with you? You are so unhinged for Aaron Burr (blocks unblocks sends another version of the above reblocks, repeat)
/Unjerk: I actually said something way kinder about Burr than you did initially. I said something general like “To be fair, Burr wasn’t that great of a guy. And there’s the whole criminal conspiracy with the bribing Generals thing and trying to recruit soldiers while Vice President thing too.” I didn’t even get into the duel.
Whatever we can be obsessed losers together. Spending every second of every day seething against the memory of precious spineless baby angle Aaron Burr (a man I never think about)