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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
If you wanted to give everyone the chance to retain their privacy, why not make it opt-in?
If you wanted this to be visible, why is it posted here and not /r/announcements? Why does the post in /r/modnews have its comments disabled?
If you wanted to add information about online activity for live discussions & such, how was the indicator of people currently reading a sub inadequate?
If you care about users' safety, why is this beginning to roll out while you are still "building out several safety features?"
Seriously, who is this *for*?
Comment by XIII-Death at 04/03/2021 at 02:11 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Seriously, who is this for?
Investors, same as every other decision to turn Reddit into an unholy amalgam of Facebook, Twitter, and Discord over the last few years despite the fact that it already has a niche that it dominates and all the other established social media platforms already do these things they keep trying to shoehorn in better than Reddit ever could.