As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

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    1 year ago

    While I can’t say I agree with the political views of the lemmy devs (at least as described in this article, as I have no other reference point), I think that it shows one of the really cool things about the fediverse. So what if those guys over there are weirdos? I can take the ball they gave me and go play somewhere else with other people.

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      1 year ago

      @Takeshidude

      Yeah can’t say i am on board with the hardcore tankie stuff but like you said that’s a positive of the fediverse other instances can choose not to play with them. Been on lemmy only for a few days but so far i haven’t seen anything terrible, no more than the shit popping up on reddit now lol.