The pushback from reddit cutting its api access was subreddits closing access, intentionally making using the platform more difficult, and moving to alternatives
While reddit couldn’t exactly stop the last two, a sizable amount of the participating subreddits had their moderation team forcefully replaced, not always by people experienced in managing such large communities
The scars of the event are absolutely still around tho, a lot of people on lemmy are originally from reddit (myself included), many old comments are Redactd, and some traditions were born out of it (r/programmerhumor post titles being camelCase was part of their protest)
(Wikipedia) Reddit API Controversy
The pushback from reddit cutting its api access was subreddits closing access, intentionally making using the platform more difficult, and moving to alternatives
While reddit couldn’t exactly stop the last two, a sizable amount of the participating subreddits had their moderation team forcefully replaced, not always by people experienced in managing such large communities
The scars of the event are absolutely still around tho, a lot of people on lemmy are originally from reddit (myself included), many old comments are Redactd, and some traditions were born out of it (r/programmerhumor post titles being camelCase was part of their protest)