Reddit’s Rolling Blackouts
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The Role of Reddit in Social Media
The nature of Reddit is all about democratization. It's like an easy way to generate revenue and sort of diversify away from advertising, which is much more fickle up and down kind of industry. And so this is when you get something for free for a really long time and then suddenly you can be asked to pay for it. So it's interesting that Reddit users can kind of mobilize in a way that other social media sites, maybe their users wouldn't or can't.
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