Reddit crypto community goes offline: Here’s why
Reddit communities unanimously decided to go private or in read-only modes between June 12 – June 14, protesting against the upcoming change that would prevent users from freely accessing APIs and tools. Numerous sub-communities on Reddit – including popular crypto subreddits – unanimously decided to go private for 48 hours as a way to protest against new company policies that prevent the use of third-party applications. In April, Reddit announced plans to modify the way users can interact with Reddit Data API, a seven-year-old application that enabled developers to create tool and utilities for moderation and other activities. Most subreddits retaliated the move as Reddit’s intention to build native moderator tools directly impacts the community ’s ability to create and use third-party tools – predominantly used for moderating the content and interactions. As a result, communities decided to go private or in read-only modes between June 12 – June 14, protesting against the upcoming c...