“At the time of publishing, a pinned bot post on the r/ModCoord sub’s post about the protest says nearly 4,500 communities are pledging to go dark, while Reddark, a site tracking the protesting subreddits, says over 200 already have.”
Nearly 4,500 subreddits pledged to go private, most for 48 hours. The 26 million-member r/videos, r/Music and r/iPhone say they stay dark until Reddit reverses the API pricing. Steve Huffman’s AMA turned a two-day protest into an open-ended one. Reddit’s whole product is unpaid moderators, and the moderators just locked the doors.