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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jdp23@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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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. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase.

Did Reddit win? Time will tell!

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[–] McBinary@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tend to agree with the sentiment here that we are all the winners for having discovered and are still using kbin, a platform that most wouldn't have even known about before Reddit's shenanigans. Though, I want to point out that total user activity on kbin is down 7,000 people since about 10 days ago...

It seems people are either going back, or are abandoning for Lemmy because of their abundance of mobile apps. Artemis is a decent kbin app, and is almost ready to release for public beta now that the API is complete (just waiting on integration) - though I fear it needs to happen sooner than later if we are to retain the userbase.

[–] Carter 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I looked at Kbin initially but the lack of any mobile apps sent me straight to Lemmy.

[–] McBinary@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah. that is probably true for many since we all came looking for an alternative due to the loss of our mobile app... Lemmy is a little more mature since it's been around a lot longer, so it already had an API to build on. @Rideranton has been working on an API and has several pending pull requests to implement one. I truly believe kbin is a better software so I'm hoping that the API sparks more dev interest.

[–] forgotaboutlaye@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Artemis is now available (Play Store link), but I completely agree that the lack of maturity in apps make Kbin a less compelling offer. It's still my usualy way to browse from my desktop though.

[–] BrisaLuna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The thing that made me use reddit less and less is old format version of lemmy.world. I tried looking for separate instance when world is getting DDoS'd, but the very familiar format made me always go back to it.

Using memmmy is brilliant though. It's probably just wishful thinking, but I hope that other sites have the old reddit format version for ease of transition. Until then, I'm here in old.lemmy.world