Reddit’s new pricing policy.According to international media reports, close to 3,500 Reddit communities, also known as subreddits, are participating in this strike as users are unhappy with charges that Reddit has introduced to its application programming interface (API).The API allows users to share Reddit content with third-party apps.
The protest was announced in a post by Reddit user u/Toptomcat on June 2.“A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users,” the user said.The user added, “On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy.
Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren’t able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app.
This isn’t something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.The biggest subreddit to go dark on Monday, with over 40 million followers, was r/funny.