Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple’s strict payment rules. From a report: Apple had threatened to remove Damus earlier this month over the app’s tips fe…

Moderators of popular Reddit communities have posted open letters to the company, requesting affordable API pricing for third-party apps, improved moderation tools and accessibility options, and a senior-level Moderator Advocate role at Reddit. The Ver…

“User protests against Reddit’s plan to charge new fees to access its content are about to enter their third week,” writes Axios.

2,503 subreddits remain dark, including at least three with more than 20 million subscribers apiece, the Guardian points…

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin heads the Russia-backed paramilitary Wagner Group — and was also “a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched an alleged coup,” according to Wikipedia.

The New York Times notes Prigozhin’s remar…

Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. Today, a spokesperson for the startup said an investigation by the board of direc…

A stark business reality faced Reddit before a user uprising engulfed its site this month: slowing sales growth. From a report: Reddit’s revenue rose 38% in 2022 to about $670 million last year, two people familiar with the matter said, faster than man…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After threatening to do so last week, Reddit has now removed the moderators of some of the subreddits that were protesting Reddit’s new API pricing scheme. Some of these subreddits have new mods in…

An anonymous reader shares a report: A handful of subreddits have classified themselves as not safe for work (NSFW) to protest Reddit’s recent treatment of the platform’s volunteer moderators, and as a result, some non-porn communities are starting to …

“Compared to the website’s average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop…” reports Engadget (citing data provided by internet analytics firm Similarweb).
“[A]s many subreddits c…

Reddit “appears to be laying the groundwork for ejecting forum moderators committed to continuing the protests,” CNN reported Friday afternoon, “a move that could force open some communities that currently remain closed to the public.

“In response, s…