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Minecraft, a game owned by software giant Microsoft, has decided to no longer post official updates on reddit. Emphasis mine.

As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits. Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer our players to.

We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you've participated in in past changelog threads. You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us on one of our official social media channels.

Kind of feels like it is pretty huge to have a subsidiary of a major corporation admitting they don't feel like officially participating in a subreddit is a safe thing to do in respect to their branding anymore.

I also find it quite funny that Microsoft feels the need to give us permission to still post "unofficial update threads." We're welcome to, so they say. Ha. Isn't that what people were doing on reddit before they showed up?

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[โ€“] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The minecraft sub may actually be what got me into using reddit before it even was used as an official space. Glad to see them take a stance.

[โ€“] dingus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's actually tricky, because I think it was "official" when it was just notch back in the day, who frequented reddit, but then when it was sold to Microsoft, it took a little while before MS approved teams started showing up.