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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 38 points 3 years ago (1 child)

If by won you mean cause controversy, drive away some users, and allienate most of those staying than Mission Accomplished. Nothing positive happened for Reddit out of this.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Really? Reddit retained about 98% of its users and gained full control of the app market. I'd call that a success for them. They got exactly what they wanted.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    The users aren't the value in reddit, it's the content creators and savvy community members that respond to questions and leave useful content in their own right. Reddit lost a number of those, and those users are forming the nucleus of their demise.

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