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 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!

    • McBinary@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. that is probably true for many since we all came looking for an alternative due to the loss of our mobile app… Lemmy is a little more mature since it’s been around a lot longer, so it already had an API to build on. @Rideranton has been working on an API and has several pending pull requests to implement one. I truly believe kbin is a better software so I’m hoping that the API sparks more dev interest.

    • BrisaLuna@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      The thing that made me use reddit less and less is old format version of lemmy.world. I tried looking for separate instance when world is getting DDoS’d, but the very familiar format made me always go back to it.

      Using memmmy is brilliant though. It’s probably just wishful thinking, but I hope that other sites have the old reddit format version for ease of transition. Until then, I’m here in old.lemmy.world