It’s rare for all of a company’s users to turn against it in such an intense way, but Reddit has managed to alienate all of their users at once. After a recent announcement that the company will no longer be offering their API for third-party apps, users have closed ranks and made the site virtually unusable. This week guest-host Haje Kamps talks with TechCrunch Sr. Reporter Morgan Sung about whether there is room for compromise between the moderators who keep the site running, third-party apps that users love, and the profit-motivated Reddit management team.

Articles from the episode:

• A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.
• Volkswagen’s breakthrough could spark a battery manufacturing gold rush
• WhatsApp introduces feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers
• Netflix launches website based on the fictional streaming service from ‘Black Mirror’
• Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO’s internal memo
• Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest, as the company threatens action on moderators
• Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit

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