The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges
“Reddit is killing third-party applications ,” multiple subreddits wrote in posts seen on the platform’s homepage this week.
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.CEO Steve Huffman “Running a product like reddit is expensive,” Huffman told The Associated Press, pointing to the millions of dollars Reddit spends on supporting high-usage, third-party apps. “I would like to be a self-sustaining company — it means we’re defensible…. and it that we can endure into the future. So that’s what we’re working towards.”
“While Reddit has promised that moderation tools will not be affected by changes to the API, many moderators rely on third party apps and access to data archives to effectively do their work,” Sarah Gilbert, postdoctoral associate at Cornell University and Citizens and Technology Lab research manager, said in a statement — later pointing to how risks of moderator burnout and essential retention.
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