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Podcast: Down Round
Episode: Reddit Blackout: Understanding the twisted mind of a mod
Description: This is a free preview of a premium episode. To hear more, join Down Round Premium. Reddit, one of the internet’s last largely functional online communities, is undergoing something of a political revolution. Thanks to the company’s plans to implement charge for API access — potentially affecting everything from third-party apps to moderation bots — subreddits large and small have gone dark, with the platform’s army of uncompensated …See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.