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.
At least personally i have not been on reddit for more than 10 minutes total since the middle of June. I am but one person, but i dont see how they can declare themselves the winners.
They think that the people who are left are more valuable than we were. At least in terms of data collection and ad views they are probably right.
On the long run chasing away the power users will probably harm the platform, but it’s not immediately clear.
They can declare whatever they want. The ex users won’t hear or rebut.
I haven’t been back at all.