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.
What price victory? They’ve lost user confidence, they’ve lost the faith and trust of moderators, they’ve lost apps which made the site easier to use. Spez has abandoned any credibility he had with users and now just looks like another self-serving tech bro, willing to cut his own mother’s throat to raise his company’s stock price a half point. Whatever Reddit has “won” was not worth the sacrifice.