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.”

  • bestioon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    it feels like a biased, paid and made up news for spez’s money to try and revive this hole of a website. most of r/all posts are repost bots, as well as comments in them.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      A huge tech company paying another big tech company to stroke it’s digital cock?

      Never!

    • regedit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Sadly, for some they will believe it and feel defeated and return to reddit thinking it’s true, and watch as reddit becomes the Facebook/Myspace of this era.

      How nice it will be if the IPO is an absolute disaster!