Some communities plan to make protests private due to concerns about the disappearance of third-party apps due to Reddit's API charge
Social bulletin board site Reddit has announced the paid deployment of a new premium API. However, the pricing of this API
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Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749188/reddit-subreddit-private-protest-api-changes-apollo-charges
Reddit has long released its API for free, but in April 2023, it set up a new paid premium API for third parties who need advanced functions. This setting, which Reddit claims to be a 'reasonable price', is estimated by Christian Selig, the developer of the Reddit client application 'Apollo', to cost $ 20 million (about 2.8 billion yen) in one year, and it is very difficult to maintain the application. It is not something that can be done, and it is feared that similar applications such as 'Reddit is Fun', 'Narwhal' and 'BaconReader' will not be usable.
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In response to this situation, some of Reddit's subreddits (communities that have gathered specific topics) are planning to temporarily make the subreddits private in order to protest against Reddit.
This seems to be due to the fact that the Reddit official app lacks functionality and third-party apps are indispensable for subreddit moderators to manage the community.
If the plan is 'private for 48 hours from June 12th' and you do not see any signs of responding to Reddit even by June 14th, 'the community and reputation you have built so far, We will use it as a tool for further action.'
Since it is a protest activity, it is also called not to threaten, insult, or vandalize.
In addition, there are reports that accounts will be deleted if you participate in protest activities.
Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192312
This information was provided to the social news site, Hacker News, on days when the number of active users per day was high, with about 100,000 to 150,000 people. It is Mr. goplayoutside of the moderator who is organizing.
According to goplayoutside, when he made an announcement based on the template to show his support for the protest, he was forced to log out of Reddit after a few minutes, saying, ``Your account has been locked for 'suspicious activity.' I received an email saying. At this time, goplayoutside was connected via Airbnb's Wi-Fi, so he thought, ``That might be the case,'' but when he logged back in, all posts and comments from the account were deleted. is.
In response to this incident, goplayoutside wrote, 'It seems that the time has come to urge my community to move to other sites.'
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