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!

  •  pizza-bagel   ( @pizza-bagel@kbin.social ) 
    10•1 year ago

    Is it over? I mean, reddit definitely got what they wanted. Bootlicking power mods got control of more subreddits, bots are running rampant and pumping up the numbers, and the API change went through with a couple people willing to pay the exorbitant cost.

    But the quality of content has dropped dramatically and I’ve seen a lot of people take notice. It’s constant reposts, one popular post will hit like 5-10 subs at the same time. And it’s mostly rate me shit and fake aita type posts. Reddit being boring will kill permanently, no protest needed.