Have no fear if you couldn’t find your favorite crypto subreddit on Monday—you probably weren’t shadowbanned.

A significant portion of crypto’s online community is participating in a so-called “Reddit blackout” today, as moderators temporarily close shop for at least 48 hours in protest of upcoming changes at the social media juggernaut.

Planned changes to Reddit’s API pricing would reportedly hurt several app developers. crypto-centric subreddits such as r/cryptocurrency, r/bitcoin, and r/ethereum have joined forces with approximately 7,000 other communities participating in the blackout, and they either going private or shifting to read-only, per the Verge.

Notably, subreddits centered around crypto-skepticism, such as r/buttcoin, had also gone quiet. Others, however, that are more embracing of digital assets, such as r/altcoin, r/NFT, and r/dogecoin remained fully online. 

Billed by the Doge-loving as “the most amazing place on Reddit” and ranked within the website’s top 1% subreddits by size, around 4,700 members were still freely browsing r/dogecoin, as of this writing—or as the community refers to it, “viewing the moon.”

Reddit itself experienced stability issues on Monday, according to Reddit’s
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