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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by oh_sigh on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:19AM (#36356960)
Subreddits may be nearly infinite, but good, descriptive subreddit names are not. r/videos is going to get more natural traffic than r/ReallyCoolNewVideos, which is going to get more natural traffic than r/asdlkajflaksjf.
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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by mrguyorama on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:06AM (#36357842)
This is the same website where the "marijuana enthusiast" sub is for people who like trees, right?
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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by oh_sigh on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:29AM (#36358274)
Sure, but it's a reddit joke, because r/trees is devoted to marijuana(which exists because of a protest against bad mods on r/marijuana).

Probably not reddit folk will be turned off by the name, and not get the joke. And I bet a lot of members of that sub only subscribed because they are inveterate redditors and not because they're interested in the subject.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by Drew_ on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:08PM (#36365683)
r/videos gets more natural traffic because it's a default sub. Regardless, making a subreddit isn't some competition. You don't need to be bigger than the subreddit you're forking from.
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