Thousands of Reddit communities have become inaccessible this week in protest against proposed changes to the site. What's it all about?
Third-party apps use Reddit's Application Programming Interface to access and use data from the site.
According to a group supporting the protest on the site Twitch, more than 7,000 groups had gone dark to oppose Reddit’s new fees. The subreddits involved in the blackout protest include r/Music, r/funny, r/gadgets and r/todayilearned — each of which has millions of followers.While some subreddits said their blackout would last for 48 hours, others, including r/Music, plan to remain 'dark' indefinitely.
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