Reddit Introduces Enhanced Privacy Features, Allowing Users to Curate Profile Content

Reddit has announced a new feature designed to enhance user privacy: the “Content and Activity” setting. With this feature, users can control how their posts are displayed in their profiles on a subreddit-specific basis.

By default, all posts and comments are visible, but this new setting gives users the option to hide their public posts and comments, including those made directly on their profiles.

Users can now selectively display posts and comments from chosen communities while hiding others. Reddit points out that this option applies to the entire community instead of individual posts or comments.

All profile settings, including “Content and Activity,” are located in the new «Profile Management» section. Here, users can adjust the visibility of their follower count and manage the display of NSFW content.

Additionally, Reddit has introduced revamped summaries of personal activity that highlight the user’s karma, overall contributions, account age, and active communities, all based on the user’s content and activity settings.

Profile owners will have the ability to temporarily access the full history of a user’s posts and comments if that individual comments on a post within their profile, as noted by Reddit.

In some instances, community moderators will still be able to access a user’s posts and comment history for 28 days, regardless of the user’s content visibility settings.

Recently, Reddit has also filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the startup of the unauthorized use of materials from the platform to train their AI model, Claude.