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Do you think it's fair for big tech companies like Reddit and Twitter to shut off their API access? 1. Definitely fair 2. Somewhat fair 3. It's circumstantial 4. Somewhat unfair 5. Not fair at all https://i.imgur.com/8jLYEDO.png
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Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
My cynical answer: 1 My optimistic answer: 2 It's all about incentives. Companies are meant to be profitable, so it's hardly surprising.
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@ba
Do you have any ideas on how we could re-align incentives so large tech companies to keep their APIs open?
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Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
I genuinely think that they cannot change because of how their businesses were built. The solution is the new wave that are protocol first (farcaster, nostr, Bluesky, etc…) I seriously think farcaster could power multiple apps like Reddit, Twitter, flickr, Strava, etc…
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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba
Agreed, having a social graph live on the protocol seems really beneficial for a lot of reasons, although I wonder what unwanted side effects will arise from doing it this way
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