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=== Users can hide their contribution history ===

Since June 2025, Reddit has given its users the ability to hide their posting and commenting history from public view. If this setting is enabled, the posts and comments only remain visible through subreddit pages, not profile pages. Only the account owner themselves and moderators of subreddits they have interacted with during the last 28 days can view the posting and commenting history.<ref>[https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-now-hide-your-reddit-posts-and-comments-from-your-profile/ You can now hide your Reddit posts and comments from your profile - Neowin]</ref>

This is different from "private profiles" on some other social media services like Twitter, where setting ones' profile to private would hide both ones profile and posts in discussion threads, limiting interaction to ones' followers.

Given that Reddit is a topic-centered discussion website (unlike some other sites such as Twitter, which is people-centered), private profiles make it more difficult for Reddit users to hold each other mutually accountable and detect bad actors such as corporate shills.

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 === Users can hide their contribution history ===
 Since June 2025, Reddit has given its users the ability to hide their posting and commenting history from public view. If this setting is enabled, the posts and comments only remain visible through subreddit pages, not profile pages. Only the account owner themselves and moderators of subreddits they have interacted with during the last 28 days can view the posting and commenting history.<ref>[https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-now-hide-your-reddit-posts-and-comments-from-your-profile/ You can now hide your Reddit posts and comments from your profile - Neowin]</ref>
+This is different from "private profiles" on some other social media services like Twitter, where setting ones' profile to private would hide both ones profile and posts in discussion threads, limiting interaction to ones' followers.
 Given that Reddit is a topic-centered discussion website (unlike some other sites such as Twitter, which is people-centered), private profiles make it more difficult for Reddit users to hold each other mutually accountable and detect bad actors such as corporate shills.