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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
“We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.” Last year, thousands of subreddits went private to protest changes to Reddit’s API pricing that forced some apps and communities to shut down. She characterized their reaction as “broadly measured” and said that the mods understand Reddit’s rules and why Reddit is making the change, “even if they don’t necessarily like it.” But “the feedback that was very obvious was this will be interpreted as a punitive change,” particularly in response to last year’s API protests, she says.
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