The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

Facts about Reddit / Subreddit and Subreddits, the private / restricted API change made by Steve Huffman and the overevaluated Apollo app by @RoadToPetabyte

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Between all socials, Reddit is the worst! It's always down ... even more than Facebook / Meta / WhatsApp / Instagram

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Current situation of the Reddit private / restricted blackout protest done after Steve Huffman API changes (09.07.23 - 13.00): over 2000 subreddits are protesting (-9% in 10 days📉)

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Without the fact that stats are back again (WTF Elon Musk ...) changing a brand name will not fix problems, since behind X (new Twitter) there is still Elon Musk ... 2) this post contains bullshit (like the Reddit API bullshit)

a) Reddit and Twitter posts can be still read on third services! (just downgraded)

b) It's not the only social media! Do we want to talk about all "posts marked as SPAM in Reddit, even if you are the owner of the subreddit or an approved user or an admin", "links banned in Reddit, Instagram and Facebook (and other socials like Pinterest for example ...)", videos muted because Meta doesn't own rights, TikTok 0 views issue, Mastodon errors when you want to post things, Instagram fails when you post some pictures / videos, the shit way to manage multiple brands on Instagram, TikTok, in part on Twitter, Vimeo, etc.

So please less bullshit, if you have 0 idea of social networks

The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Continúa crisis en Reddit: Usuarios indignados y subreddits cerrados por alza de precios https://perma.cc/2L7L-PP5N

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Upcoming Reddit blackout and the future of third-party applications https://perma.cc/X8LH-ZQBV

Stevie Chancellor, Ph. D.: “Reddit's decision to charge a hefty fee for API access is harmful to creative use of its API and data. To be clear, there are companies who take advantage of Reddit's dataset and work to benefit only themselves — think of large-scale AI models that use scraped data from all over the internet to make for-profit models. That said, there are a great number of justified parties who should have free and easy API access — researchers and students, people who make tools that make moderators' jobs easier, and any Redditor who uses a third-party app that provides a more accessible browsing experience. ...."

Obviously in such case Apollo would not be included, since is a profit oriented brand. But there are many other that don't do that with profit in mind.

The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work https://perma.cc/JJG5-TJE9

Remember that Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Gab, Telegram, Discord, russian socials and all social networks where a group of people can write or posts always require moderation, that get done for free. Facebook don't pay you, Telegram too, and all other are nothing better! So just considering Reddit is fully wrong. Considering the fact that moderation on Reddit still works a bit better than the shitty huge limited moderation on Discord, because Discord is simply an huge limited social network with all features (now a bit better). So yes, this happens on Reddit, but happens everywhere too.

Without now considering topics like that even big companies worked for free at the beginning (or better the real CEOs who founded that), there are tons other thing that get done for free until ... (but even "without until", just think about climate change projects!) is not that just Reddit moderators do that!!!!

The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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First of all, let we cover the bullshit that Reddit iOS apps don't exist anymore (or you need to pay to use them)

1) here 7 shitty bad iOS apps examples

2) all apps have NO additional benefit compared to other not iOS alternative (they are even worse)

3) no app, even the old bad Apollo, integrated Dubsmash technology

4) many apps have display issue of the post similar to the shitty Apollo, so no media showed at all (even if most Apollo users "simply ignore such problem, saying like if Apollo is perfect...")

5) like we said previously and happened with Apollo, does something happen, no data is saved at all

6) some apps have a fucking slow loading time of the media

7) with some apps you cannot search posts at all, just subreddits

8) the reason why some apps exists is really the big question. For sure Apollo, that was not perfect like all people are saying, was 100 better than all these app. Some apps showed here are simply useless

9) some apps show NSFW content without login, some other nope

10) some apps don't autoplay the video and you need to open another tab

11) download button is pretty similar or worse to what Reddit official app is offering. In such case not comparable to old Apollo, 3 socials or other ways to check Reddit

12) productivity of your workflows on such iOS apps is 0 at all and even not comparable using Reddit and multiple browser or other ways (but obviously again not on an shitty iOS browser ...)

Conclusion: stop to use Reddit in a shit way on iOS apps!

The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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At least there are some people that still are able to think properly

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

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Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes https://perma.cc/3WB5-8HM7

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The reality behind private restricted Reddit Blackout after paid API changes done by Steve Huffman or Apollo

May 14, 2026, 08:48 PM

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Social networks that get downgrades since 2017? Here we go some examples: Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. get almost just worse. Twitter Community Note is the best 👍 - Social network that want to become better and better: TikTok, Telegram, YouTube (in part)

So is not just about Reddit, like all people think!

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