Welcome to r/teenagers's self-post weekend. Self-post weekend is when we, the moderating team, disable link posts for the period of the weekend to encourage more discussion and less memes during our higher traffic period of the week.

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In this thread we also encourage you, the community, to introduce yourselves. Post a parent comment reply, and let us know who you are, what your hobbies are like or maybe a weird quirky fact that could work as an icebreaker. In addition, we'd like to remind users not to include any personally identifying information.

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Get to know one another more and Remember the Human behind that username! We encourage all users to comment and reply to each other's parent comment replies to meet the interesting members that comprises this community.

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Looking for even more specific places to meet new friends and a sense of community? Visit our Discord server, where you can talk to each other in real time with a variety of topics that occur! Our Discord server is one of the top active servers you can join to participate, so never feel as if it's empty to join and discuss!

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- r/teenagers moderating teams

For those unaware of the current situation please refer to this image and Reddit's response here.

There has been recent discussion within the community surrounding whether r/teenagers will be joining in the Reddit blackout on June 12th, this is where communities across Reddit are setting their subreddits to private in protest of the changes.

I recently made a comment to state how we have not yet made a firm decision but I worded it terribly and I do apologise for that. To summarise r/teenagers will be barely affected by the API changes as the security of the subreddit is based on first party tools and a bot that can work within Reddit's free tier.

However, there are other factors at play like accessibility features from third party apps. We have been informed by Reddit that they have plans to assist some of those who will be affected by the changes. After reading up on these plans they do seem beneficial to those that they apply to, however, we worry for those who those plans don't apply to.

Ultimately, we understand that Reddit is allowed to monetise their platform in whichever way they want, however, a costly premium for API calls per user can really stifle innovation and I can see Reddit getting more hurt over this change than benefitting from it as potential developers are scared off due to the price tag.

Therefore, after heavy discussion with our moderation team we have ultimately decided to join the Reddit blackout from June 12th to June 14th.

If you would still like the r/teenagers experience during that time then feel free to join our discord server (https://discord.gg/teenagers).

Thank you and have a nice day!

Edit: We will be keeping an eye on the situation and may revoke our decision if we see Reddit make sufficient changes that are beneficial to those affected by the API changes