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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Reddit likely lost a lot of users who were exclusively Reddit users and didn’t use other social media. That might not amount to that many people total, but it does mean advertisers lose one of the more important demographics Reddit had to offer (since they can target the others more efficiently on other platforms anyway). Hope it still hurts their bottom line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I quit using it, but I was using a third party app that didn't have ads. However, I still insist that there is a way for someone to buy accounts, votes, and even entire subreddits directly from Reddit. The way reddit and other websites turn a blind eye to how many fake accounts they have just doesn't make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The way reddit and other websites turn a blind eye to how many fake accounts they have just doesn’t make sense to me.

Traffic numbers by bot accounts boost "user engagement" metrics. If they cracked down on bots the line would go down and the line must go up.