Reddit, the “front page of the internet,” is making front-page news today, as many of the site’s moderators have made their communities private or restricted to protest recent changes to the platform.
Many of the platform’s largest forums or subreddits, including r/pics, r/gaming and r/music, are preventing users from viewing the site or posting on it in an effort to draw attention to changes that would charge third-party apps to access Reddit’s content — a move third-party developers say would put their applications out of business.
The changes, slated to begin on July 1, will charge external applications for accessing Reddit’s content — a
