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[ad_1] All through June, we have witnessed a unique battle between a social media platform and its users to determine its policies. Reddit announced earlier this year its new API pricing change that was introduced in order to stave off AI platforms using the website's data to train its models. However, one consequence of it was seen on third-party apps that suddenly had to pay an extremely high price to request data from Reddit. That turned out to be a big pain point between the admins of the platform and the community, which resulted in protests and Reddit witnessed a big hit to its website traffic and active users as a result of it.It all began when Apollo, a third-party Reddit platform for iOS, made a post announcing that it will be shutting down operations on June 30 as it will have...

[ad_1] In a shocking development, Reddit moderators, who participated in the protests against the company over its API pricing change, were reportedly being removed from their position. The moderators who were being suspended were the ones who changed their subreddit's label to Not Safe For Work (NSFW). The label indicates that sexual content is allowed on the subreddit. The ongoing protests began on June 12 when many Reddit communities went private to show their displeasure over the planned price hikes for API requests that forced several third-party apps to stop operations from June 30.It is believed that the moderators were suspended for changing their communities to NSFW. Usually, when a subreddit is flagged as NSFW, Reddit adds an age warning before allowing desktop users from acce...

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