Something unusual is going on over at Reddit.
Reddit announced they were basically going to kill popular third party browsing apps by making the fees astronomical, and there has been widespread resistance in the form of many major subreddits setting themselves to private and not allowing new posts. This makes the content not viewable to the public (unless you were already a subscriber to that subreddit).
Seems management is escalating, by removing mods who are engaged in the protest and replacing them with scabs willing to open up the pages again:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/21/...-subs-to-nsfw/
Reddit famously relies on tons of free labor from volunteer users who do the lion's share moderation work for the social media site, in exchange for having control over their little section of the website. Paid admin employees generally only step in when mods aren't maintaining the site-wide rules or otherwise aren't holding up the bargain.
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Thousands of Reddit communities go dark to boycott third-party app charges Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. More than 8,000 subreddits were dark as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a tracker and live Twitch stream of the boycott. Participants ranged from small forums to large communities with tens of millions of subscribers — including the r/funny, r/music and r/todayilearned pages seen on the online discussion site. “Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself),” other subreddits wrote in posts seen on the platform’s homepage. The new fees are part of broader changes to Reddit’s API, or application programming interface, that the company announced recently. Organizers of the blackout, which began Monday, say Reddit’s changes threaten to end key ways of historically customizing the platform — which relies heavily on the work of volunteer moderators. Subreddit “mods” often use tools outside of the official app to keep their forums free of spam and hateful content, for example, as well as improve accessibility. |
Seems management is escalating, by removing mods who are engaged in the protest and replacing them with scabs willing to open up the pages again:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/21/...-subs-to-nsfw/
Reddit famously relies on tons of free labor from volunteer users who do the lion's share moderation work for the social media site, in exchange for having control over their little section of the website. Paid admin employees generally only step in when mods aren't maintaining the site-wide rules or otherwise aren't holding up the bargain.
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