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 Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”

  • Poudlardo@jlai.luEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No they did not win. People just expect people to move out from an historic platform overnight. This just doesn’t happen like that. Like Twitter, they’ll be small events that will make users want to find alternatives and migrate here.

    That crisis made Lemmy way more populated, just for that we won in a way