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Reddit communities go private to protest pricing plan for apps (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lettruthout@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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“A very small percentage of the users are power users, and they generate the content, they generate the value and they perform a lot of the free moderation,”

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[–] HeartyBeast@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was all over the BBC this morning

[–] Metanoia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more visibility the better.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The truth is, news agencies have leaned heavily on Reddit themselves as they’ve cut costs. So Reddit going down probably affected all the news agencies more than it affected regular people.