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  2. 2023 Reddit API controversy - Wikipedia

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    An image posted on many subreddits as protest during the blackout [1] In April 2023, the discussion and news aggregation website Reddit announced its intentions to charge for its application programming interface (API), a feature which had been free since 2008, causing a dispute. The move forced multiple third-party applications to shut down ...

  3. Explainer-Reddit protest: Why are thousands of subreddits ...

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    The action has been in the works for weeks after Reddit announced in April that it would start charging third parties for its application programming interface (API) - a software framework that ...

  4. Reddit went down amid blackout protest over company's ... - AOL

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    UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2023, 11:52 a.m. EDT Reddit appeared to recover from its crash on Monday by about midday eastern time. The homepage was loading on desktop and outage reports were falling on Down ...

  5. Reddit communities go private to protest pricing plan for apps

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    The protest is over one of Reddit’s efforts to bring in more money. While many people use its official app or website, others get a similar experience through apps made by third-party software ...

  6. Enshittification - Wikipedia

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    In September 2024, Reddit announced that moderators will no longer have the ability of changing subreddit accessibility from "public" to "private" without approval from Reddit staff. This was widely interpreted by moderators as a punitive change in response to the 2023 API protests. [31]

  7. r/place - Wikipedia

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    Reddit users collaborating to protest spez (Reddit's CEO) during the final hours of the 2023 experiment due to the 2023 Reddit API controversy. The canvas was expanded six times, and the project concluded on July 25, 2023. [54] During the final hours, users were limited to placing greyscale-colored tiles. [55] Users coordinated to spell out ...

  8. Generative AI Is at the Heart of the Ongoing Reddit Protest ...

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    Reddit is a perfect platform to collect training data for AI algorithms. That could make third-party apps a thing of the past. Generative AI Is at the Heart of the Ongoing Reddit Protest—Here ...

  9. Talk:2023 Reddit API controversy - Wikipedia

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    The text states Announcing the changes, Reddit stated that the Reddit data aggregation site Pushshift — whose service was used by LLMs — violated its API rules and would be losing access to Reddit’s Data API after Reddit had been unable to contact the Pushshift team about the violations. Pushshift later announced it was live again with ...