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Thanks for the feature! <turned off>

"The intent of this feature is to drive greater engagement amongst our users" => smells bad!

If you do not want to display your status indicator, you can opt-out of this feature by clicking into your profile (on the redesign or in-app) and toggling off “Online.

Fuck this and everything about it. This is like Venmo's public-by-default payment history.

What's the end-game here? Just indoctrinating everyone into being comfortable with surveillance?

I understand the benefit this has for very specific Reddit communities. But to turn it on my default is mind-bendingly wrong. If anything, each sub should have to turn it on individually for that sub, and users should have to opt-in on that particular sub.

Reddit is full of bad actors and you don't want to give them visibility of your activity.

Turned off.

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