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.”

  • DilipaEli@lemmy.world
    English
    104·
    11 months ago

    In my eyes Gizmodo is not seeing the big picture. The protest didn’t kill reddit, but that was not a realistic outcome to begin with. However it significantly hurt reddit and helped push lemmy as an alternative. Reddit will be around for a long time, until lemmy has more widespread adaptation. It’s the beginning of the end for reddit and they’ll experience that with a disaster ipo

    • sfgifz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      11 months ago

      Lemmy actually feels like a viable alternative now with apps like Sync upping the experience. Seems like Reddit literally shot itself in the foot by kicking 3rd party apps to competition.

      • Buttermilk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        The number of folks interacting too is such a night and day difference. I dabbled in some lemmy instances before all this but never stuck around being there just wasn’t much going on.

    • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Lemmy appears to be financially stable due to user donations. Reddit relies on investors and monetizing users.

      I bet, if we keep donating like we need, and the code iterates and works… this place can be hopping. I’d like quality to not suffer, but there will be more options as population increases.

        • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’d love to learn there’s a LemmyPi version…

          I’d still want to support the larger project, but the idea of having my own, stable, federated how I want… that would be cool.

          Not sure a RPi4 has what’s needed, however.

            • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              A good RPi 4 could swing it as a local instance, based on that description. I’d want things locked down for security, and I’m sure the priority isn’t fragmentation. Even so, were it to happen, it would be cool.

    • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      This is not a zero sum game. I benefitted by finding Lenny and Lenny benefited from an influx of users.

      Reddit hurt its self by damming the social contract with mods. That doesn’t help Lenny.

      That isn’t a win, but reddit aren’t going away either.