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.”

      • Buttermilk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        They do, but the difference is I can’t go to another reddit instance when they pull shit. It’s not flawless, but it certainly changes the power dynamics.

        • wesley@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          And they don’t have ownership over a single community name as well. You can start a community with the same name on a different server

      • OpenSourceDeezNuts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, memes@lemmy.ml, everyone can just leave and make memes@sh.itjust.works or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.

    • Compactor9679English
      315·
      1 year ago

      You sub to a subreddit and gen banned on others that had nothing to do with it. Try talking anou how bad the vaccines are… Get banned. It does not matter if you are right or not, cant even have the conversation

        • Compactor9679English
          34·
          1 year ago

          “Missinformation” lol everything on the vaccine has been missinformation until is not… “Virus came from a lab in china” “once you are vaccinated you wont get covid (depends on when you say it if its " missinformation” or not)" etc…

      • Nato BoramEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats