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Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by anji@lemmy.anji.nl to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Much less toxicity than on Reddit.

This. The 2016 US presidential election attracted an awful lot of awfully hateful people to Reddit, and they've been there pushing my buttons ever since.

[–] Garrathian@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Around then I feel is when spam bots on the site started to become really rampant too. I could be mistaken though