“I hope that they feel this blackout financially,” one Reddit moderator said. “With companies this big, they really speak one language, and that language is money.'
by third-party apps built to better access Reddit — as well as widespread anger from the platform’s robust moderator community.
Over the past couple of weeks, they discussed how best to protest. Many moderators drafted statements or linked to anin a pinned post atop their forums. Some communities, like the 30 million-member r/videos, opted to go private so users who aren’t already in the subreddit can’t see any posts and no one can make new ones.
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