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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by MrMember on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:51PM (#36247772)
>I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this.

Subreddits are run by volunteer moderators and are entirely at the whim of reddit. If any substantial subreddit tried to shut down or go dark permanently reddit would just remove the moderators responsible.

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by shagie on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:18PM (#36248286)
... or the community would spin up a new one with a slightly different name and a new set of moderators if the demand is there.

There are lots of permanently dark/private subreddits out there that have been "lost" to some dispute or another.

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