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You can block Javascript for reddit domain by default and still use old.reddit.com url if you're just browsing the website. There is absolutely no need to run Javascript for that.

It's true there is a need for a programming focused community that is outside reddit. Reddit host objectively depraved material along with scientific or programming subs, and has been caught spreading revenge porn or grooming minors multiple times. Never used discord.

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I'll never stop finding it hilarious that the very first step of the "Reddit crackdown" was the subreddit fatpeoplehate. They left up all the subreddits about abusing women, people getting murdered, revenge porn, outright racism and targeted harassment groups. But making fun of fat people? Gotta stomp that right out.

There were multiple waves of bans of varied types, I stumbled on it when it was still mostly admin sockpuppets (the horror unidan !) And the jailbait stuff was the first almost serious effort, albeit externally coerced by an old favorite "wont someone please think of the children" the first major overall regression was the absurd velocity reduction for front-page posts and its been downwards since. although as mentioned in these topics about Reddit/forums smaller subs, very specific topics, and the uhh one? Well-regulated large sub are informative with a decent S/N.

Unfortunately it's a single point of failure and randomly entire types of subređdit are banned and disappear forever a recent example that springs to mind were the "sporetrading" mushroom ones, some 12+years old guttednowhosting none of the same content although the topic is only legally restricted in 3 states.

So it goes.

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