The protest being waged by standard subreddits over Reddit’s API modifications continues, and this week it is taken a NSFW twist.
On Monday, r/pics(opens in a new tab) — an enormous group with over 30 million members — formally marked itself NSFW (not secure for work), which means Reddit is now not capable of present commercials alongside posts showing within the subreddit.
Reddit bids farewell to third-party apps like Apollo, BaconReader
It is the newest iteration of a protest that began in mid-June, when 6,500 subreddits took half in a blackout to protest Reddit’s plans to cost for API (utility programming interface) entry. Redditors are indignant concerning the Twitter-like modifications, which have now led to third-party apps like Apollo — which could not afford the charges — having to close down.
Because the blackout, plenty of massive subreddits have continued to protest Reddit’s modifications in quite a lot of artistic methods. r/pics opted to go down a really John Oliver-focused route, first solely permitting photographs of the comic and Final Week Tonight host to be shared on the sub after which amending their very own guidelines in order that any media that includes Oliver – together with erotic fan fiction – may very well be posted.
Per week in the past, r/pics moderators shared a post(opens in a new tab) discussing the extent of profanity within the sub, reminding the group — through a really tongue in cheek “open letter” — to not swear of their posts, lest the mods be pressured to mark the group NSFW and thus deprive Reddit of promoting income.
“Now we actually, actually do not need to mark r/pics as being NSFW,” reads the put up. “Doing so would imply that we had been now not discoverable, that we’d now not present up in Reddit’s foremost feeds, and that hundreds of thousands of individuals could be disadvantaged of John Oliver’s presence on their screens. It could even have the impact of maintaining Reddit from exhibiting commercials alongside our posts, which we really feel could be unfair.”
The wording of this put up is essential, as Reddit has reportedly stepped in beforehand to take away mods for marking their communities NSFW as a type of protest. “r/pics is not going to be made NSFW as a type of protest,” reads the put up in r/pics. “Any such change can be enacted in an effort to adjust to Reddit’s insurance policies. If Reddit had been to take away moderators from r/pics, that motion would go towards their very own publicly affirmed pointers.”
All of this led to the subreddit formally being marked NSFW on Monday. Elsewhere, different Reddit communities are persevering with to protest in their very own methods. r/movies is at present only allowing posts that contain texts describing a video(opens in a new tab), whereas r/humorous has an open letter to Reddit(opens in a new tab) pinned on the prime of the sub.
