Interesting. I didn’t know that about deleting comments. The web client on my instance has a delete button, but is there some kind of issue with that change not necessarily propagating to other instances?

It doesn’t bother me much personally since you never really can be sure that you deleted something from the internet. Even if reddit deletes a comment, you can possibly find it on an archive somewhere. Anything you toss onto the web should be something you’re comfortable with the world knowing.

Looks like it’s to lower activity for the holidays, which is a good move. Hopefully they don’t need all hands on deck for some kind of urgent issue until after the holidays are over.

You can express your opinion, but other people can criticize it. It’s just how these sites work.

That’s giving them too much credit. I think they want it to be theirs.

The Jews being safe in the US is sadly not guaranteed in the future, especially with the rise of Nazis here. The existence of Israel isn’t guaranteed either, but the thing that compelled many people to establish it is that Jews at least had some agency in their own safety there.