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I'll soon need to back on some of my optional subscriptions, but the yearly donation to EFF is staying for sure

@twistedtxb @dirtmayor Completely agree. The fact that people from all over the web using different services can engage is amazing (hello from mastodon!)

Just the Internet, huh? I think it's ruining a few things. Especially when it's coupled w/ the forever growth mentality.

Unbridled capitalism is destroying ~~the internet~~ everything it touches.

When the ONLY motive for doing (or not doing) something is profit, things go to sit sooner or later. The example I often use is that we actually have enough food in the planet to feed everyone. We just throw a large portion of it away or destroy it, because in so many cases food is not made/grown to feed people, but to generate profits... Sad reality of late stage capitalism.

It is but the FOSS community and projects like the Fediverse and increasing decentralization will go a long way to countering monetisation and the capitalist mindset

Yeah, there's nothing special about an API. It's just a shortcut for the app to use to get specific info from the server.

In general it's actually less burdensome.

Scraping is more burdensome for the platform since that serves up images, JavaScript, and other files required to render a page. Maybe dying I tools can avoid this.

Greedy bastards

I think it is more like the protoweb. How this works is more similar to BBSes, Usenet, IRC networks and the like from 30 years ago. Truly distributed networks with no central controlling mechanism and the systems communicate by simply agreeing on the technical protocol. That was what the internet was designed for i the first place. The last couple of decades where everything has been centralized to a few big megacorps is an abomination.

I've been thinking we call it web4.0 to mess with the cryptobros. Idk if it is an accurate name, but I bet they would hate it.

They're betting that the masses are too baked in to care. Reddit's CEO said it himself, they're counting on this to blow over. The best message you can send to them is to delete your reddit account and in the box that asks why you're doing so, tell them you're leaving for lemmy. Encourage your communities to follow you. This has happened one before with us old-timers who remember the Great Digg Migration. (Interesting internet history read if you have time.)

Part of me thinks they were planning on using the high rate as a negotiation tactic. Ask for twice what you want, then back down to your actual number.

Then the Apollo dev "miscommunication" happened and things got ugly. Maybe they'll still back down, but maybe they'll die on that hill.

The other part of me thinks they just want to kill 3p apps and this is the easiest way to do that. Just price them out. They probably had some accountant or MBA crunch numbers on how many people would leave vs how much more revenue driving people to their ad ridden hellscape of an app...and figured it was worth the bad press.

Hell, they probably saw what Netflix just did with account sharing and were like "they got more subscribers!!!".

I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Reddit. It will be slow at first then all at once.

Probably analyzed the Twitter population before and after the API change, and it seems Twitter survived, so they wish to replicate this.

Reddit is only going to get worst over the next year. I came across this article a couple days ago while searching for early news coverage of the (then planned) blackout:

Reddit launches new ad products to boost conversions (archive.ph mirror)

Reddit has launched Contextual Keyword Targeting and Product Ads, to help advertisers reach new and valuable audiences.

The article reads like an ad, but what I got out of it was Reddit is going to have more tracking and intrusive advertising. Not a good experience.

Yeah a lot of naysayers had me convinced a short protest would do nothing, but you're right... This is about awareness. I've noticed particularly in the last year a downgrade in quality content on reddit and im sure others are noticing. Lemmy might not be ready yet, but it can be with some building inertia and useability improvements.