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Reddit moderators are unpaid volunteers who govern communities larger than most cities. They're anonymous. They answer to nobody. Google now licenses Reddit's data. Moderator decisions about what stays up and what gets removed now shape search results for mill
In June 2013, a Reddit moderator named skeen lost control of r/atheism, a community he had founded and grown to over two million subscribers. He hadn't been removed for misconduct. He hadn't resigned. He had simply been inactive for long enough that another mo
In June 2023, thousands of subreddits went dark. Reddit's API pricing changes triggered the largest platform protest in its history. Moderators locked their communities. Users couldn't post. And Google lost millions of indexed pages overnight. The blackout las
Reddit has 765 million monthly active users (DataReportal, 2025). It is one of the fastest-growing platforms on the internet, accelerated by its 2024 IPO and a data licensing deal with Google that made Reddit threads a fixture in search results. It is also the