I think Lemmy won a bit too.

MySpace, digg, Yahoo, Mapquest, Hotmail, icanhazcheeseburger, Fark…still exist…possibly still make money even. But just because Reddit still has traffic and activism users doesn’t mean it won’t implode at some point. There are users and traffic because of content. Maybe it will go on fine without us but would not be at all surprised if it went downhill significantly in the next few years and the money dries up and people like Steve Huffman will have to get real jobs

I don't care if reddit wins or loses. I like it better here, and that's what matters.

If they won then why am I here?

Reddit won in the since that Sparta lost. Nobody tells the story like they're LOSERS. Sometimes, being the protagonist in a tale is more important than winning.

Gizmodo's metric for success is that "The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called 'John Oliver rules' which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits."

This doesn't seem like a good metric to me. I'd like to see monthly revenue and traffic. I'm sure we're not going to see revenue, and the sites I found that report traffic are conflicting. One shows a clear decline (https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#traffic) and the other shows a clear increase (https://ahrefs.com/traffic-checker).

I'm still not using Reddit. Let's hope this at least puts a drop in the user count right before the IPO.

What price victory? They've lost user confidence, they've lost the faith and trust of moderators, they've lost apps which made the site easier to use. Spez has abandoned any credibility he had with users and now just looks like another self-serving tech bro, willing to cut his own mother's throat to raise his company's stock price a half point. Whatever Reddit has "won" was not worth the sacrifice.

Thanks for posting that here. I would never have seen it otherwise.

Meh. The ruthless, slimy, and devoid of moral compass always walk away with the most money.

The key here is that they don't walk away with my money.

It was always clear Reddit would not change course.

The real question is whether the fediverse found enough room to germinate and if Reddit's days are numbered.

I'm all in on the fediverse.