• Rob200@lemmings.world
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    3 hours ago

    Can’t see how many one is surprised, that a capitalist company Reddit did this api fee, now x is doing it. Capitalist see, capitalist do.

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    6 hours ago

    Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?

  • emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It’s a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that’s hemorrhaging users and engagement.

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      9 hours ago

      You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!

      🧠🧠🧠

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    10 hours ago

    And next week he’ll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.

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        35 minutes ago

        He also likes it so literal children can publicly adore him. Also grooming.

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        5 hours ago

        Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.

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    8 hours ago

    This would have sounding effects on researchers, like mis- and dis-information, as most are still spread there, where they use API to aggregate and analyze tweets (or whatever it is called now).