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"Reddit Community in Turmoil: Subreddits Go Dark and Apps Shut Down"

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Source: BBC
"Reddit Community in Turmoil: Subreddits Go Dark and Apps Shut Down"
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Thousands of subreddits will be inaccessible for 48 hours in protest at Reddit's introduction of controversial charges to developers of third-party apps. Almost 3,500 subreddits will be affected, including five of the 10 most popular communities on the site. Reddit relies heavily on community moderation, with tens of thousands of unpaid moderators keeping the website functional. The blackout is intended to send a message to Reddit admins that they rely on moderators to operate the site and that the only way to send a message was by harming Reddit's traffic.

Topics:business#moderators#protest#reddit#subreddits#technology#third-party-apps
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  1. Reddit blackout: Subreddits to go private on Monday  BBC
  2. Apollo for Reddit is shutting down  The Verge
  3. Subreddits planning to go dark over Reddit's initial public enshittification  Boing Boing
  4. Why Your Favorite Subreddits Are Going Dark on June 12  Lifehacker
  5. Reddit won't budge on the API changes that are shutting down apps like Apollo  The Verge

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