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An image posted on many subreddits as protest during the blackout [1]. In April 2023, the discussion and news aggregation website Reddit announced its intentions to charge for its application programming interface (API), a feature which had been free since 2008, causing a dispute.
The protest is over one of Reddit’s efforts to bring in more money. While many people use its official app or website, others get a similar experience through apps made by third-party software ...
A little context: Numerous Reddit communities are currently turned private, in protest of the platform's new API pricing structure, which threatens to kill many popular, third-party Reddit apps.
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]
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 ]
Reddit is a perfect platform to collect training data for AI algorithms. That could make third-party apps a thing of the past. Generative AI Is at the Heart of the Ongoing Reddit Protest—Here ...
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]
A number of popular subreddits have cheekily relaunched amid the widespread protest against Reddit from its users. Three massive subreddits — r/pics, r/gifs, and r/aww — now feature only ...