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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian tweeted, "Online community-building is more like IRL community-building than people realize", in an apparent reference to the backlash to Reddit's API changes. [ 62 ] On June 29, Mojang Studios , the developers of Minecraft , would cease posting game updates and official content onto Reddit, citing moderation ...
Reddit users and moderators widely protested the platform's API changes; many subreddits went into "lockdown" to protest the changes, disallowing new posts indefinitely. [23] [37] Reddit denied trying to intentionally "kill" third-party apps. [21] [25] The Verge noted that Apollo became "the central figure in an all-out platform war". [23]
In July 2023, Reddit relaunched its popular r/place experience in the midst of the API changes controversy, sparking mass protests on the page regarding Huffman and his reddit account, u/spez, with the slogan "Fuck Spez!" featuring repeatedly and noticeably, including similar sentiments expressed in other languages.
Reddit announced new changes to its API pricing, effective July 1, that will force many third-party apps to shut down. In response, on June 12, thousands of subreddits went private in protest of the decision; some for two days, and others indefinitely. [ 87 ]
Many Redditors are still up in arms about Reddit's recent API changes, but CEO Steve Huffman isn't backing down. That's the gist (and, frankly, nearly all of the substance) of Huffman's interview ...
In September 2024, Reddit announced that moderators will no longer have the ability of changing subreddit accessibility from "public" to "private" without approval from Reddit staff. This was widely interpreted by moderators as a punitive change in response to the 2023 API protests. [31]
The text states Announcing the changes, Reddit stated that the Reddit data aggregation site Pushshift — whose service was used by LLMs — violated its API rules and would be losing access to Reddit’s Data API after Reddit had been unable to contact the Pushshift team about the violations. Pushshift later announced it was live again with ...
After the 2023 Reddit API changes, journalists, researchers and former Reddit moderators have expressed concerns about the spread of harmful misinformation, a relative lack of subject matter expertise from replacement mods, a vetting process of replacement mods seen as haphazard, a loss of third party tools often used for content moderation ...