- A popular NSFW Reddit community has been transformed into a "Christian Minecraft server."
- Members of r/horny subreddit are posting goat photos instead to protest Reddit's pricing policy.
An adult content community on Reddit says it's turned into a "Christian Minecraft server" in protest over the platform's "treacherous" pricing policy.
Members of the r/horny community are now posting photos of goats, cats and memes in the subreddit. Its moderators said it's "bidding farewell" to its NSFW content and is attempting to become an "amusing" place instead.
"The winds of change have blown across the vast Reddit landscape, and the terrain has become treacherous," said the moderators of the community, with close to 750,000 members. "Alas, our valiant mod team can no longer ensure the safety and well-being of our members while navigating the realms of NSFW content."
It comes after thousands of subreddits went private from Monday to take a stand against its new pricing policy for its application programming interface (API). According to the Financial Times, close to 5,000 communities were still dark as of Friday.
Reddit plans to charge third-party apps to access the company's API from July 1. Third-party app Apollo said the changes would cost it more than $20 million a year.
CEO Steve Huffman said last week in a post addressing the community about its API changes that "explicit content is still allowed on Reddit as long as it abides by our content policy."
Moderators of two large communities that went private said on Saturday that Reddit "does not care" about its users.
The r/antiwork subreddit posted a statement from its moderators.
"The important takeaway here is Reddit does not care about this community and Reddit does not care about you," they wrote. "They see you as nothing more than a statistic to monetize. They do not care about the quality of this community. They do not care about the desires of the community or the mod team."
Another moderator for the community r/IndianSkincareAddicts said it's making its subreddit private "indefinitely" from June 23 and called the company's actions "disgraceful, disrespectful and downright disgusting."
They added that Reddit is "completely disregarding the ground reality of the issues faced by moderators and users alike while going back on their promises and words."
Reddit didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.