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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 23:26:41 JSTAether ??? After a remarkable performance by Reddit's CEO in an AMA event, many of Reddit's largest subreddits have reversed course on their plans for a two day outage in protest over recent changes the the platforms API and are now planning to go dark indefinitely.
theverge.com/2023/6/10/23756476/reddit-protest-api-changes-apollo-third-party-apps
Whoops.
Reports are that CEO Steve Huffman didn't answer a single question from developers, spending all his time whiffing paid softballs.
Here's a list of all the subreddits going offline in protest.
reddark.untone.uk/
It's a lot. Most of the big default subreddits, which, to be fair, are all troon-ridden shitholes.
The default subreddits that new users are subscribed to will be going private so that new users can't access them at all.
Which will improve the site, but I don't know if Redditors will see it that way.