> but because it had gotten out of Reddit's control For a long time Reddit's stance was to let subreddits be subreddits. If you wanted to heavily moderate your

> but because it had gotten out of Reddit's control For a long time Reddit's stance was to let subreddits be subreddits. If you wanted to heavily moderate your sub's content, fine. If you wanted near anarchy, also fine. Anything within the bounds of the site-wide rules (no doxxing, nothing illegal) was fair game, and if users didn't like it they didn't have to read the sub. If you found it to be a poor venue for political discourse you were probably posting on the wrong subs. There's a worrying trend towards authoritarianism on the web. I wish we could get more popular momentum behind truly federated platforms.