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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] Trouble continues to dog Reddit with the platform all set to implement its planned changes from July 1 onwards. Ever since Reddit announced its new pricing for API requests, many third-party apps have come out and stated that they will have to shut down because they will not be able to afford to run operations. Afterwards, thousands of subreddits went private to protest the move. While some subreddits continue to stay private even after the 48-hour schedule, other communities have written an open letter asking the company to find a solution. And now, today, a Minecraft developer made a post announcing that the devs will not be making any official posts or referring to their players on the platform, highlighting that they will be effectively stepping away from Reddit.A user named ...

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Amid protests, Reddit suffers BIG blow to website engagement, active users

Setback for Reddit as Minecraft developer exits, says will no longer post “official content”