Here’s the list of highlights from the article, as it’s a good TL;DR:
- The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
- How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
- Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
- Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
- A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
I think it’s pretty clear, by removing the ability to moderate NSFW content from their mobile app, that they’re trying to phase NSFW content off their platform completely. They’re going to slowly make it more and more difficult to post/browse anything NSFW on the site, until they announce an outright ban on it.
That’s what a ton of the casual users that keep their site chugging along are there for though…