Reddit no longer allows users to view adult content on the site using external apps. Last month, CEO Steve Huffman said that, beginning July 5, users would no longer be able to view mature content using third-party apps. Explicit content is now only accessible via the official Reddit app, which requires users to log in.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wrote in a post last month, “Effective July 5, 2023, we will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed.”Huffman further clarified that the Data API update would have no effect on moderator bots or add-ons.
According to Vice’s reporting, Reddit is taking this action to discourage the usage of other apps in favor of the official Reddit app. The survey highlighted the fact that there is a wide variety of explicit content available in third-party apps, not only porn.
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Back in April, Reddit made an announcement that it will be opening up its API to developers. Huffman had previously claimed, in an interview with the New York Times, that prominent commercial chatbots like Google’s Bard, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s Bing Chat were trained using data obtained from Reddit’s API.
Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to that end, we can no longer support commercial enterprises that demand large-scale data access,” Huffman wrote in a post last month, reiterating the necessity for API fees.
Moderators and other community leaders who rely on third-party apps to facilitate their work have voiced their displeasure with Reddit over the company’s intention to impose astronomical fees for access to API data.
As a result of the API changes, many communities took to Reddit to organize a 48-hour protest. As a sort of protest against the modifications made by Reddit, some of these communities began posting pornographic content or declaring their subreddits as NSFW. Subreddits deemed NSFW are not allowed to be promoted, and some even have age requirements to join.