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.
Why would you use a link aggregator to follow individual users? That’s literally what Mastodon is for, and you should be able to use your Lemmy creds to access it, meaning you have access to it.