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.
How’s it identical? I know I’m not alone based on what I see here in that I haven’t been there since the API shit down. Fuck 'em
Right, but ex-redditors are still a very small percentage of the reddit user base. We might be a lot in numbers, but reddit saw a pretty similar decline in activity to pretty much every other major social media platform last month. That is to say, we didn’t really impact reddit as much as we think. The content quality is probably worse, especially due to low morale and lack of mod tools to combat spam and such, but the site will still remain as the main link aggregator for the foreseeable future. There’s little we can do about it except hope that more people reach their line and jump off the platform.