Previously: Reddit announced that it will prevent commercial AI services from accessing its APIs. At that time, "it wasn't clear if third-party clients like Apollo for Reddit, Sync for Reddit, rif is fun, and other apps would be allowed to stay in their current form." Now, it looks like maybe not. And Reddit moderators, like those on Stack Overflow, are fuming. As a result, a number of discussion threads (known as 'subreddits') will be blocked in protest. "Many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free (so) On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy." Some advocated a migration to Lemmy, a federated messaging service similar to Mastodon; Reddit responded by briefly blocking references to Lemmy.
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