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.
I had heard of it, but was like “that’s dumb, just use Reddit, there’s no reason not to”
They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider
Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.
Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.
I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.
But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”
Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.
Yup, I saw the paltry userbase and didn’t bother. Other alternatives like lobste.rs and Tildes were a bit too closed, so I just stuck with Reddit. When Reddit decided to be stupid, I tried out lemmy and haven’t looked back.