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.
That’s a long game. There is no way that having viable open-source competitors appear and gain an established user base is a positive outlook for corporate data scraping businesses who need to lure us into their mouse traps. We can expect them to seek “friendly integrations” with fediverse in the future.