How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest
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The Reddit Blackout of 2023 will go down in internet history as one of the largest online protests ever. Outraged redditors coordinated a blackout, with moderators making popular subreddits private in protest, resulting in Reddit being a ghost town.
Why? This business decision by Reddit caused developers to pay over $20,000,000 to get access to their developer APIs which they relied on for access to create valuable Reddit clients, bots, and tools.
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Chapters (20)
Intro
0:45
What is an API?
2:01
The Creation of Apollo (Reddit)
3:32
April 18th 2023 (Large Language Models)
4:09
The Announcement of API Changes
4:47
Apollo Talks to Reddit
5:36
API Requests Explained
6:15
How much is Reddit worth?
6:52
Thanks to Snyk for Sponsoring
8:06
Announcing Apollo Shutdown
8:26
The Slander Begins
9:02
The Actual Call with Reddit
11:36
Analyzing the Call
12:10
Apollo Releases the Source Code
12:59
The Worst Aspect of this Change
13:34
The Post goes VIRAL
14:30
Reddit Responds
14:57
Reddit Declares War
15:29
Subreddits Fight Back
16:32
Blackout Day 1
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