Ongoing Reddit Woes: Blackout Explained, Threatened Hacker Leak, Creative Continuing Protests
liar writes:
The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges:
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility.
"Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself)," multiple subreddits wrote in posts seen on the platform's homepage this week.
The new fees are part of broader changes to Reddit's API, or application programming interface, that the company announced recently.
[...] Nearly 9,000 subreddits went dark this week and more than 4,000 remained dark on Friday, including communities with tens of millions of subscribers like r/music and r/videos - according to a tracker of the boycott. While some returned to their public settings after 48 hours, others say they will stay private indefinitely, until Reddit meets their demands.
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