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.”

  • bestioon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    it feels like a biased, paid and made up news for spez’s money to try and revive this hole of a website. most of r/all posts are repost bots, as well as comments in them.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      11 months ago

      A huge tech company paying another big tech company to stroke it’s digital cock?

      Never!

    • regedit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Sadly, for some they will believe it and feel defeated and return to reddit thinking it’s true, and watch as reddit becomes the Facebook/Myspace of this era.

      How nice it will be if the IPO is an absolute disaster!

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I can’t use a mobile browser to view most content on Reddit anymore due to one of the changes to the site. I get a bunch of prompts to log in or verify my age or something that can only be removed by switching my browser to desktop mode.

      This basically ensures that I won’t ever use Reddit because I do most of my doom scrolling on mobile when I’m bored.

      I think today I’ll investigate one of the means of automatically changing all of my comments to fuck spez and then delete my account.