228 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Update regarding user profile transparency
Reddit was supposed to be anonymous. If you block someone from following you, they can easily go to your profile without being logged in and stalk you that way. Not feeding this information through API is completely BS. Why are you forcing me to use this app? It's not like I hate this app. Far from that actually. But having an open API that can be used to build 3rd party clients and then not feeding all the information through is it completely BS. First it was Reddit chat, and now this.
Reddit is a community, not a social media. Leave it like that. If I want to be on a social media, I'll go to Instagram. If I want to privately talk to people, I'll go to discord. If I want to take part in a community of people, I come to Reddit. Don't try to turn it into a social media. I'm not aware of any other place like Reddit where you can find communities about anything, talk about it, get help from people and much more. I don't like where this is going, and I think other redditors don't either
Comment by AnUnimportantLife at 19/07/2019 at 02:45 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If you block someone from following you, they can easily go to your profile without being logged in and stalk you that way.
I get where you're coming from and I broadly agree--the follow feature sucks and there's no reason why it should be a thing on Reddit. You don't really see it on other forums that still exist or that predated Reddit because they mostly had the friends feature for that.
But I think the weird stalker-y aspect of following users has always been a thing here. I mean, before there was a follow feature, there was nothing preventing a weirdo from bookmarking your profile in their browser and checking up on what you'd been posting periodically.
Comment by ikilledtupac at 19/07/2019 at 06:16 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They got that 150 million from China, and the Chinese government don’t like anonymity.
Comment by timawesomeness at 19/07/2019 at 00:13 UTC
-9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The new profiles/following are available through the API, since it's literally just subscribing to a subreddit named /r/u_*username*, and this change will also be available over the API. Chat is the only major thing they don't have an API for.