this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Charging for APIs is not the problem, the problem is the deceitful, smug and bad faith approach to it.
The symptom is that they even considered it. The problem is that they are a for-profit company that systematically doesn't care about us at all.
Not only that. They are a for profit company that is extremely dependent on volunteers to moderate their subs. I feel like they are going to learn a hard lesson about alienating your volunteer workforce.
Yeah, this is why I would prefer to remain on Lemmy unless there's literally no content, which doesn't look like it's going to be an issue :)