https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html
Update: they didn't, but they did trademark "nosleep."
(They did reach out to us to try and organize a live, in-person r/nosleep Halloween event, only to eventually ghost us about it. Twice.)
And not necessarily by suing, Reddit could save itself some trouble and simply delete the subreddit.
I'd be surprised if Reddit liked that.
Reddit offers an extensive API to do just that: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/
It makes tons of business sense to let things like that happen. It is in no way a legal can of worms or in fact any trouble at all.
"with submissions [ALSO] going to changeaview.com [AND] reddit.com's comment section" ?
If the replies only went to changeaview.com the entire comment section would be blank when browsing via Reddit.
It's not a tiny userbase, but it's quite small by present social media standards.
http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general
Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.
- auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page
- loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subreddits but only visit deliberately about 3 of those.
Good luck (sincerely), but I would not be surprised if r/CMV stays larger than your new independent website.