The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.

The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as “the official end of the battle,” which seems an overstatement to me, but it’s the certainly the end of the initial phase.

Did Reddit win? Time will tell!

  • e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net
    18·
    1 year ago

    I used to spend hours per day on Reddit. Now I visit once or twice a month, read-only. My subscription is canceled and all my posts/comments deleted. My “front page of the Internet” is now here.

    • bradorsomething
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ll try to say something cool to make it worth your while.

      …

      But later. It has to come organically.

    • bradorsomething
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not guaranteed to happen, but eventually reddit might become links of things people found on Lemmy.