Hashtag: Chris Selig

Reddit is going dark. In a big way! The community that makes up the platform is protesting against the company’s decision to impose draconian pricing for access to its application programming interface, aka API. The pricing is so exorbitant that it will kill third-party apps that are popular with people who don’t want to use Reddit’s (mediocre) official app and equally mediocre website.  And more importantly, the protests only reinforce the reality that “the community is the platform.