What you need to know about the 48-hour Reddit user blackout, which kicks off today and affects more than 7,000 subreddits
In a Wednesday post, the"Explain Like I'm Five" subreddit forum —
— wrote that they are suspending normal operations to protest Reddit's proposed changes about third-party apps.First, some context: A third-party app is another way to post to and interact with Reddit., there were other apps — such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Slide, Comet, and Boost — that allowed these interactions.
According to the ELI5 post, these third-party apps scraped Reddit posts by using something called the Application Programming Interface, or API. These apps also allowed users to customize their Reddit by changing the display theme, or changing how to upvote a post. "Have you ever gotten mad at the reddit app because it had bugs, or it was just weird about how it did something? Right now, and until July 1st, you have the option to try out one of these apps and see if you like reddit better this way. After July 1st, you won't have the option anymore," it said.
And it's all because of Reddit's new pricing policy that charges third-party apps for using its API that were announced on May 31.Another reason for the protest stems from accessibility and a"If Reddit was a restaurant third-party apps are franchises. We can get a burger from Reddit directly or from a franchise. The official Reddit location is at the top of a cliff. Disabled people can't get there.
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