The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. ( gizmodo.com )

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!

AnonymousLlama ,
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Reddit was always going to rebound eventually, it's got a massive userbase and can pull through a fair number of people leaving. I'm pretty happy with the amount of free time I've won back since I've stopped doom scrolling Reddit.

Pretty keen to see how the fediverse improves over time.

Elkenders ,

I’ll still likely get answers to questions by including “Reddit” in my search engine searches, but for general community posting consumption I’ve been really pleased with Lemmy. I haven’t missed Reddit and avoiding ads is 100% worth it for me. It feels like using Gimp instead of Photoshop.

xilliah ,
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From my point reddit was already ruined for years and it was becoming even worse. I often had to scroll quite a bit to get past the obnoxious US politics posts, not to mention the endless stream of low effort pictures. Just because something is popular doesn’t make it good.

Pons_Aelius ,

I often had to scroll quite a bit to get past the obnoxious US politics posts

And the posts that had nothing to do with the US or politics would usually descend into a US centric shit fight anyway.

Any post involving firearms anywhere in the world...flooded with US 2A nut jobs.

etc

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xc2215x ,

It was a good idea at first. Not enough subreddits participated or not a long enough time to make a difference.

Technodad ,
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Creating a viable competitor is never a victory from a business perspective.

jhulten ,

You can’t fight a fire from inside the house.

style99 ,
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"Winning"

lol

Gargleblaster ,
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The media has declared reddit the winner multiple times since the protest started.

Fuck the media. There are still 1800+ restricted subreddits.

https://reddark.untone.uk

Who won? Anybody who realized that reddit was commodifying your posts, comments, and contributions and left that shitshack.

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