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  2. 2023 Reddit API controversy - Wikipedia

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    Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO. On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would charge for its API service amid a potential initial public offering. [6] Speaking to The New York Times ' Mike Isaac, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said, "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free".

  3. 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 ...

  4. Reddit Blackout: Thousands of Subreddits Go Dark to Protest ...

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    Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have “gone dark” — temporarily closing their virtual doors — for what’s planned as a two-day protest over the company’s move to charge third-party ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Steve Huffman - Wikipedia

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    Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez (/ s p ɛ z /), is an American web developer and entrepreneur.He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks 9th in the top 20 websites in the world as of February 2025. [4]

  7. Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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    When Infogami failed to find further funding, Y-Combinator organizers suggested Infogami merge with Reddit, [39] [40] which it did in November 2005, creating a new firm, Not a Bug, devoted to promoting both products. [39] [4] As a result, Swartz was given the title of co-founder of Reddit. Although both projects initially struggled, Reddit made ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Reddit - Wikipedia

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    Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.