Thousands of Reddit communities go dark to protest new data fees

Social networking forum Reddit is following moves from companies such as Twitter to increase fees in an effort to monetize more of its platform. More than 6,000 communities on the social networking forum Reddit are going dark for 48 hours starting Monday in protest of a fee hike for developers that use the site’s data. Popular discussion threads, known as subreddits, including r/music, r/art, r/videos, r/gaming, r/science, and r/funny have been set to private mode and some will close indefinitely. A growing list of other communities are joining. “Closed Indefinitely...