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In the wake of sitewide protests, ostensibly over some API changes but really about an increasingly corporate squeeze of a historically community-run

Reddit has started removing the mod teams of some subreddits that switched the labeling on their communities to Not Safe For Work (NSFW) in the latest protests against the site. A post on r/ModCoord detailed what’s happened in r/MildlyInteresting.

Several popular subreddits that historically prohibited porn have started allowing users to post NSFW or Not Safe For Work content to oppose Reddits API changes..

Reddit Back As Reddit continues to protest the company's API changes, some enterprising posters have devised a novel way to get back at the company's bottom line. As The Verge reports, there were at one point more than 8,000 subreddits that "went dark" in protest of Reddit's API changes that would charge popular third-party apps to […]

Last week saw almost 8,500 subreddits go dark (private/restricted) in protest against the platform's decision to update its API, which requires some third-party app developers to pay...

A week after the Reddit strike was due to end, more than one in three of its communities remain offline.

Posts about nsfw written by Mike Masnick and Techdirt

Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.

Replacement volunteers have big shoes to fill.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After threatening to do so last week, Reddit has now removed the moderators of some of the subreddits that were protesting Reddits new API pricing scheme. Some of these subreddits have new mods in the protesters place, while other affected sub...