Subreddits Are Planning an Indefinite Blackout in Response to Leaked Reddit CEO Memo
and delivering a blow to user experience. On Monday, the site went down over the blackouts. As of Wednesday morning, the day the strike was originally set to end, more than 6,700 subreddits were still set to private.Thousands of moderators for subreddits across Reddit decided to protest weeks after the company announced a change to its API policy on May 31, which would drastically increase the price third-party apps would have to pay to access it.
In Apollo’s case, the new price tag to access Reddit’s API would be more than $20 million a year, its developer Christian Selig said. Apollo is set to officially close on June 30.Reddit, meanwhile, argued that with its API pricing change, the company simply wanted to stop companies like Google and OpenAI from training their AI models on Reddit content.
“Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use,” Huffman said in anHuffman and the company have repeatedly refused to budge on making changes to the policy, though it will offer exceptions for noncommercial accessibility focused apps.
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