Reddit users will soon have an option to keep their interactions on the social site private. The company is rolling out a new feature that enables users to hide posts and comments that they made on the site on their profile page.
Currently, all posts and comments show up when the page is opened. Anyone who opens the link to the profile, which always begins with https://www.reddit.com/user/ followed by the username, sees all posts and comments by that user in chronological order.
Some content on the page, including saved posts on Reddit or votes, are kept private.
Reddit users have the following options going forward:
- Hide all posts and comments.
- Hide posts and comments selectively per community.
- Show all posts and comments (default).
Furthermore, there will be additional options. Users who interact with NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content on Reddit may block this content from showing up in their profile directly. Also, the follower count can be hidden as well.
This may look like a small change for Reddit users who do not post to the site. Those who do know that their profiles are in the open and so is their entire post and commenting history.
Giving users an option to lock this down is appreciated, as it blocks potential abuse, e.g., creation of profiles or harassment. It may be especially useful to users who interact with SFW (Safe For Work) and NSFW content on the site, and do not want the SFW crowd to know about their NSFW side, or the other way round.
Now You: do you have a Reddit account? What is your take on the direction the site is heading to since its IPO? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
I do not have a Reddit account. I even block Reddit results from searches on all search engines I use (Brave Search, DuckDuckGo, Goggle and Bing in that order).
Reddit is two part.
Part #1: Useful tech stuff, but nothing that can not be also found on YouTube or other forums.
Part #2: Useless opinions and fake stories curated by brain-dead Redditors. Waste of time, even if posts are from real people and not bots. It is the same argument as with: “if it is “natural” it is always good for your health”. No.
Reddit is a major reason I would never use Google AI, since it is mostly trained on Reddit.