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!

  • palarith@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reddit has being a dead man walking for a while now. Full of zombie bot reposters and zombie scrollers.

    It’s a win for me now that there are good alternatives in lemmy and kbin