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.
To be fair, before the reddit crisis I was looking for a decentralised foss alternative but didn’t find anything worthwhile. So, imo, the mere fact that this event may have helped put Lemmy in the spotlight and made it grow is in itself the victory to take away from this battle :)