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.
Reddit exists to make money, so they definitely won
That’s a long game. There is no way that having viable open-source competitors appear and gain an established user base is a positive outlook for corporate data scraping businesses who need to lure us into their mouse traps. We can expect them to seek “friendly integrations” with fediverse in the future.