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The original was posted on /r/firefox by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-06-30 01:25:23+00:00.

The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.

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Despite the fact that we were asked what our concerns were and shared them 12 days ago, we haven’t received ANY response from them after that, complete silence for almost two weeks and counting. So it appears that the reddit admins are not acting in good faith and aren’t discussing this with us. They are relying only on vaguely worded threats.

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Those who know the subreddit and have been here for a long time know that it has been actively moderated for years in order to maintain a positive environment. We don’t wish to let the subreddit fall into the hands of someone who would undo the good work we have done or would even foster an anti-Mozilla community here.

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Thus, we have reopened the community for now. All legacy technical posts will remain available so that searching for help related to the browser is still available, but henceforth and until the reddit admins appropriately reply to our concerns, the only new submissions allowed will be ones that contain the cuddly fuzzy little animals from which the subreddit indirectly received its name:‌

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The red panda! Also known as fire foxes.

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If you are looking for technical posts, we now have an official community on Kbin. Keep in mind that Lemmy also federates with Kbin. We continue to be around on Matrix as well.

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For technical posts, see:

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Stay here for cute fire fox pictures and videos!

As it is the end of the month tomorrow, we can’t say what the future holds for reddit. Browser-related posts will be allowed on this subreddit at a later point in time, presumably when the reddit admins have replied to concerns appropriately or addressed to all subreddits site-wide. Some of the developers of tools that we rely on have already thrown in the towel, so whatever happens to reddit, it definitely won’t be what reddit used to be.

Best, The landed gentry r/Firefox moderator team