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.
At what cost, though?
Yes, I feel long-term damage will be more interesting. If there are viable alternatives, people may migrate over, a large part of the reddit community still knows what happened, and I doubt that with the current CEO that reddit will succeed long-term
The viable alternatives exist, and we’re writing on one of them.
In my opinion, maybe Lemmy or Kbin won’t be the final replacement, but in the long run Reddit will be replaced. And spez was the beginning.
The fog of war clears, Google searches point to once useful forums. The libraries have been burned down and what goes with it a wealth of knowledge lost to time.