When are they trying to IPO and cash out? A better way to avoid the backlash would have been to just slowly increase the API fees until all the third party apps were priced out. Then there wouldn't be a hard event to rage about, just mild grumblings while one by one each app says they can't afford this particular price hike.
A better way to avoid the backlash would have been to just slowly increase the API fees until all the third party apps were priced out.
I think that it's what they tried to do, but the decision makers are so disconnected from the platform and its community that they thought that the starting prices were reasonable. (They aren't.)
Good. Though I expect it won't change a dammed thing. The Amina know what they're doing, this is a purge of thoughtful culture do they can promulgate the drivel that facilitates ad revenue generating doom scrolling.
Very good. People have had enough.
That's a good thing in my opinion, although it probably won't accomplish anything. But it's also a good time to abandon the sinking ship and try out new things - hey lemmy :-)
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