Reddit Moderators Do Over $3.4 Million in Free Labor Every Year

If you haven’t, here’s the tl;dr recap: For years now, many in the Reddit community have used third-party mobile apps — like Apollo — to read and post to Reddit. That’s partly because Reddit for a long time didn’t have its own app. It’s also because Reddit made it cheap to develop a third-party app. Reddit’s API (the gateway that lets third-party apps post data to Reddit) was free. So Apollo could do its thing without incurring a lot of data costs. That changed quickly in recent months, when Reddit executives announced they were adding new charges to their API. <a href="https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c">Learn More</a>