• MalachiAzrael@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it actually went private. They went “read-only” so that this:

    could be on the front page.

    • waigl@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s what I said. However, I do believe that they were truly private, not visible for normal users, before that brief outage just now.

      • zerosignal@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        at least one other sub that i know of, r/2westerneuropean4u, went from private to restricted, and are only allowing posts that protest the API changes.