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Elon Musk has attracted criticism since he bought Twitter and began overhauling its operations, but his influence on other social media moguls is undeniable.

Some moderators have chosen to fight dirty to make their voices heard.

Elon Musk has attracted plenty of criticism since he bought Twitter in late October and began overhauling its operations, but his influence on other social media moguls has been undeniable.

Reddit appears to be stepping up pressure on moderators to open up communities that were closed during the blackout protest against recently announced

A Reddit admin told the moderators of one protesting subreddit that “the expectation here is that communities reopen.” r/DIY has reopened, but with new rules that lower the community’s quality standards for new posts.

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.

More than 3,200 message boards, known as subreddits, remained restricted or private, down from nearly 9,000 last week, according to a website tracking the revolt.

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...