Reddit Is Removing Mods Over NSFW Protests
In the wake of sitewide protests, ostensibly over some API changes but really about an increasingly corporate squeeze of a historically community-run
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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 Reddit's 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...