reddit is kind of like facebook for nerds.
For context, /r/The_Donald has clashed with the admins for quite a while, and had several rules imposed on it, like being banned from linking to r/politics. It is also speculated that the algorithm for r/all being redone and the ability to filter r/all were specific acts taken because of and against the_donald. This crackdown from the admins also comes after a new set of much stricter rules for moderators. While resentments between t_d mods and the admins have been simmering for a long time, there are some specific recent events that have led to this which I detailed in a post yesterday, copied here
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/6c7utq/the_donald_has_gone_private_in_protest_of_their/
I found it interesting a post about the first mod that got banned (ohsnapyougotserved) had like 10k upvotes and was on the front page ‘above the fold’ so to speak, of reddit. I saw this because my reddit app on my new Fire always took me to the reddit front page . wasn’t too long after that that the gate came down.