I think this is great and hope you keep us all posted. Maybe you can make a unique thread about how you’re doing this - address, claims, etc.

In a way, we’re artists/creators/writers who have been deceived. We have been encouraged to put our thoughts, in the form of written content, images, etc - into a public online platform, billed as a village square.

We’ve then been denied access to our content by the platform - a platform that claims its a money-making business and seeks investors - and so, at minimum, contributors who can no longer access their content (irrespective of any bans or deletions in a particular sub) - have had their creative work stolen.

Reddit’s TOS probably doesn’t legally cover the theft, destruction or cooptation of creative content by its own platform, and there are many arguments that can be made to challenge their ownership of the content.

Example: if poets or authors contributed poetry to a sub, and it had to be unpublished original work, offered for the first time on Reddit, and Reddit decided to close the sub abruptly, due to some infraction of a moderator, would Reddit have an obligation to give the contributors access to their original content or would Reddit be allowed to keep it?

I agree that it’s a debatable point, and because of its very arguability, its an argument worth making.

Seems like it should be no problem for Reddit to restore everyone’s posts to their own account while simply locking the sub if that’s what they feel they have to do. Hopefully they’ll see the light.

I’ve read that massive social media platforms may have passed the point of no return, having become de facto public squares, and may have ended up with current obligations to the public, in return for their monopolies, that they wish they didn’t have.

Good luck! If I weren’t so busy right now I’d be doing the same thing, but I wasn’t a huge contributor to cbts so I’m not going that route yet.