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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by jdp23@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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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!

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[-] Kerrigor@kbin.social 53 points 11 months ago

They solidified the establishment of competing services (kbin, Lemmy). Many of us would've never even considered using them otherwise. It may not have hurt them a ton in the short term, but they've helped set up their competition.

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