Thousands of subreddits to go private on Monday over plans to charge other companies for access to data
Some of the largest communities on Reddit will lock their doors in protest at the social news site’s decision to try to monetise access to its data.
More than 3,000 subreddits have joined the protest, and will go “private” on Monday 12 June, preventing anyone outside the community from seeing their posts.
Forums such as r/todayilearned, r/funny and r/gaming, with more than 30 million subscribers apiece, have signed up to join the campaign, while others with 1 million plus members, including r/iPhone and r/unexpected, have already closed their doors in anticipation of the strike.
The protest is over a set of forthcoming changes to the site’s “API”, which lets other companies use reddit data in their own products and services.
