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These are strange days for people who care about trust and safety on platforms. Historically, many people have suggested that either more effective central moderation (a platform owner intervening directly in policing the content of the…

The open internet once seemed inevitable. Now, as global economic woes mount and interest rates climb, the dream of the 2000s feels like it’s on its last legs. After abruptly blocking access to unregistered users at the end of last month,…

Today is the day the internet feared.Maybe it wasn’t an active fear, not a doomsday everyone knew was coming, but still one that almost seemed inevitable: The magic of Reddit is gone. As of today, June 30, 2023, several mobile apps for…

Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month. They were roused by 6:30 am phone calls from a colleague warning that Reddit had started blocking the…

Mojang has announced that it'll no longer use Reddit to post official updates for Minecraft. Going forward, the team will now use the Minecraft website or another social media platform to give updates.The news comes from…

Reddit, a network of communities serving as an online public forum (known as "the front page of the Internet") is at odds with its base (the app has about 57 million daily users) after announcing major changes to the platform in…

A Dungeons And Dragons subreddit with over a million members is experiencing an “influx of sexualised goblin content”, due to ongoing protests surrounding Reddit‘s controversial pricing changes. For several weeks, Reddit communities have…

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Back in May, Oddsseeker completed a study on what video game communities on Reddit have the most toxic potty mouths. It also shows who, among the fanbases, has the best vocabularies, particularly…

Poynter says the BlackCat group uses ransomware and DDoS attacks, then extorts money with threats of leaking confidential information. The latter appears to be the case with Reddit, with the hackers claiming that the data…

Reddit is digging in its heels in a tense stand-off with its own online communities over the cost of data access, in a move that could threaten its nascent advertising business ahead of a potential listing in New York. Users in…