Reddit, one of the rare platforms where the whole world comes together, has been criticized for days for its decision to put third-party applications in trouble. While Reddit’s management has not retracted the move they made by facing the criticism, they will be on the platform as of today. a big protest started.

Thousands of communities are “shaking” their visibility on Reddit.Hiddenhe began to do. So, what has been and will be done on Reddit hundreds of thousands of shares now only viewed by members of this community. This reduces the interaction within the platform to a minimum.

Over 6,000 Reddit communities joined the protest!

The number of communities participating in the protest on the “reddark_247” channel on Twitch, which shares the communities participating in the protest live on Reddit more than 6000At the moment it is almost 6300. Let us remind you that there are a total of 7266 communities on Reddit.

Here are some of the major communities that took part in the protest:

• r/funny (over 40 million members)
• r/aww (more than 30 million members)
• r/gaming (over 30 million members)
• r/Music (over 30 million members)
• r/science (more than 30 million members)
• r/todayilearned (over 30 million members)
• r/gadgets (over 20 million members)
• r/space (over 20 million members)
• r/videos (over 20 million members)
• r/creepy (over 10 million members)
• r/InternetIsBeautiful (over 10 million members)
• r/tifu (over 10 million members)

How has Reddit been affected by communities being private?

With the conversion of these communities to secret societies, Reddit values ​​with 458 million shares, 5.7 billion comments, 66 million user posts and a total of 102 billion karmaturned all the way in.

Keep in mind that Reddit is a platform where communities also communicate with each other, allowing for even more sharing and interaction.

The protest will last 48 hours.

What was the decision that started the protest on Reddit?

Reddit has made its API paid, which third-party application developers have used for free until now. The most popular app affected by this decision was Apolllo, a much sleeker alternative to Reddit’s main app.

Apollo with API operation $20 million a year had been convicted. Application developers have announced that they are closing their applications for this reason.