Friday about the"frustration" experienced by the community as a result of the changes and said he'd spoken with several moderators about it.
"Mods, I appreciate all the time you've spent with us this week, and all the time prior as well. Your feedback is invaluable," Huffman wrote. "We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private. We are all responsible for ensuring Reddit provides an open accessible place for people to find community and belonging."
Big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft use Reddit data to train their AI systems. Huffman toldthat the decision to charge for using the API was because Reddit didn't want to give away all its"valuable" data for free. In his post Friday, he added:"Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use."