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ELI5: Why Is John Oliver the New Face of the Reddit API Protest?
After thousands of subreddits went dark to protest Reddit’s decision to charge money for API access, the revolt continues with a new figurehead. Redditors in some major subreddits have flooded their respective communities with photos of British comedian John Oliver instead of the typically posted content. The new initiative to protest Reddit’s API decision began…
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Here’s Why Thousands of Subreddits Are Now Private
For at least the next 48 hours, thousands of subreddits will be set to private to reduce user engagement, disrupt advertising, and protest API changes.
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Reddit Gave Away $150K to Make 8 Subreddits’ Dreams Come True. Here’s How It Got Spent.
It’s not often you see a company give a group of strangers on the internet $US50,000 ($69,410) and tell them to do something cool. On Reddit this week, we got a dose of the internet as good and pure force, just in time for the holidays.
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Reddit Is Hosting What May Be the Internet’s Most Wholesome Fan War
Who produced this amazing pixel art of Elden Ring’s Ranni sitting next to the protagonist of Hollow Knight, and why? The answer is r/Place, a Reddit battlefield where anyone can place a dot and change the course of meme history. In an era where so much of the modern internet is trash, r/Place has returned…