Initially i did not want to purge my account because I found it to be a valuable resource. But seeing this post was the last straw! I don’t want to be part of reddit where it is threatening and trying to silence its own community’s!
PS: First post on Lemmy!
Welcome!
For me, the worst part of all this crap is how much Reddit Inc. is eager to lie to the users, with a forced smile on face, almost like saying “you’re a bunch of gullible morons, aren’t you?”. That admin reply that you linked is a prime example of that:
Their actions show that the subreddits belong to neither the users, nor the mods: they belong to Reddit Inc.