This is in Ask HN and you do have a question: > What was my mistake? I'll chime in with my 2cents. Your mistake was pouring effort into building a community

This is in Ask HN and you do have a question: > What was my mistake? I'll chime in with my 2cents. Your mistake was pouring effort into building a community on Reddit for 10 years. I hate to see work go to waste, but what did you expect? You don't own Reddit. Reddit doesn't owe you anything. You never had a contract with Reddit (and I strongly doubt there's a clause to protect your in their TOS). You built content for their platform that can be monetized by their ad infrastructure -- they weren't hiding that fact. The same thing can happen if you have a Discord community, Facebook community, or even a Telegram group. That's the price you pay for free hosting, zero technical setup, and access to a built-in audience. Take this as a learning experience. If you build another community on Reddit, perhaps funnel the users to a self-hosted platform. Alternatively, lower your expectations of "owning" a community.