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Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods

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Jay Peters
They’re really gone.

I’m getting kind of melancholy reading posts about Reddit apps actually going kaput. It has been clear for awhile that Reddit wouldn’t budge, but part of me still hoped something would change before today.

Here’s a few of the threads I’ve seen.

Confirmed: Apollo peacefully passed away a few seconds ago.

It is gone. (Sync.)

And she’s gone. (BaconReader.)

RIP RIF.

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