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 did way worse than losing and worse than dying directly.
Reddit is dead inside and that’s all that matters to me.
The few times I’ve been back since the initial protest I’ve noticed content quality on r/all is considerably worse.
It isn’t dead, but Digg didn’t die overnight either. Reddit is absolutely dying.
Digg*
I was part of the Digg exodus to Reddit, and now I’m here.
When I’ve checked the front page it’s like 15 year humor has taken over. R/unexpected top post was some dumb “NSFW” gif with a breakup and a girl saying how she loved a dude and him saying she didn’t give him pussy, "🤦so cringe. All my subs were borked, not worth the effort to rebuild, I’d rather build new in lemmy.
They’re 100% botting to keep it “alive” but it’s a facade. Happy to watch it go up.