People keep acting surprised at the direction Reddit’s taking, but it seemed inevitable. If you try to build community on a platform that’s not owned by that community this will happen every time. You can protest, you can even attack the bottom line (which is the only thing that will get you anywhere), but at the end of the day you have no power and they’ll just block you and re-add your deleted posts. Don’t trade community ownership and power for convenience or you’ll get burned every time.

—@sam