Reddit, one of the rare platforms where the whole world comes together, has been criticized for days with its decision to put third-party applications in trouble. While the Reddit management did not withdraw the step they took by facing the criticism, a big protest started on the platform as of today.
Thousands of communities have started to make their Reddit visibility ‘Private’. Thus, hundreds of thousands of posts made or to be made on Reddit are now viewed only by those who are members of this community. As a result, the interaction within the platform drops to a minimum.
More than 6,000 Reddit communities joined the protest!
On the “reddark_247” channel on Twitch, which shares the communities participating in the protest on Reddit live, the number of communities participating in the protest has exceeded 6000, approaching 6300 as of now. Let’s remind you that there are 7266 communities in total on Reddit.
Here are some of the large communities that took part in the protest:
- r/funny (over 40 million members)
- r/aww (more than 30 million members)
- r/gaming (more than 30 million members)
- r/Music (more than 30 million members)
- r/science (more than 30 million members)
- r/todayilearned (more than 30 million members)
- r/gadgets (over 20 million members)
- r/space (more than 20 million members)
- r/videos (over 20 million members)
- r/creepy (more than 10 million members)
- r/InternetIsBeautiful (more than 10 million members)
- r/tifu (more than 10 million members)
How has Reddit been affected by communities being private?
With the conversion of these communities to secret societies, Reddit values, which correspond to 458 million shares, 5.7 billion comments, 66 million user posts and a total of 102 billion karma, became completely introspective.
It should be kept in mind that Reddit is a platform where communities also interact with each other, thus allowing for even more sharing and interaction.
The protest will last 48 hours.
What was the decision that started the protest on Reddit?
Reddit has made its API paid, which has been used by third-party application developers for free until now. The most popular app affected by this decision was Apolllo, a much more streamlined alternative to Reddit’s main app.
Apollo was sentenced to pay $20 million a year with the API regulation. Application developers have announced that they will close their applications for this reason.
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