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Is this intentional to prevent mass censorship?

The simpler explanation, and the one consistent with history, is that reddit does not prioritize the use case of moderators. If the goal was to be an absolutely unmoderated free-for-all, they wouldn't provide half-assed mod functionality, they'd provide zero mod functionality.

Especially given that AutoModerator exists and can be set up to automatically remove posts or comments based on particular key words or even regex, and odes it so fast that not even the various "view removed reddit" services can show you what was there.

One of the possibly fortuitous aspects of Mastodon is that admins tend to be devs, hence their needs prioritised.

Automoderator, like RES, is a third-party addition to Reddit.

AutoModerator started as a third-party feature. Now it's built in to reddit (and IIRC the developer was hired, or at least collaborated with, on the integration).

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