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.
Reddit won nothing, maybe just didn’t lose as hard as we expected, but the site is a cesspool (more than before).
I can see reddit sharing facebook and twitter’s fate of a slow painful death
…a slow painful, yet profitable death, unfortunately.