TL;DR: A leaked Reddit admin policy change will reportedly limit accounts to moderating only one large subreddit (1M+ weekly viewers) and up to five medium-sized subreddits (100k+ weekly viewers). This is seen as a response to past subreddit blackouts over API changes, with some moderators allegedly planning to circumvent the restrictions. Here are some screenshots if you don’t want to view the cancerous link:

Honestly. too little too late and for the wrong reasons. They should have done this 6-8 years ago.

  • mesa@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

    Yeah this has been an issue for a LONG time. Having one individual in charge of a million+ subreddit is just asking for power-tripping. And there are often hundreds of subreddits attached to one account.