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.
Yes, I feel long-term damage will be more interesting. If there are viable alternatives, people may migrate over, a large part of the reddit community still knows what happened, and I doubt that with the current CEO that reddit will succeed long-term
The viable alternatives exist, and we’re writing on one of them.
In my opinion, maybe Lemmy or Kbin won’t be the final replacement, but in the long run Reddit will be replaced. And spez was the beginning.