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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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@m-j-r
5 the users, not the company, generate emergent value and network effects in order for ad revenue or other monetization to maintain platform. changing API rates is fait accompli against the third parties that strive to improve UX enough for preexisting userbase to not churn. enshittification is an exit strategy
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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba
Agreed that it's bs when a company gets large enough and devs begin to rely on the public APIs for their projects. Although it seems like there can be no repercussions since it's a for profit company acting within their rights. What solution do you have in mind so large tech corps won't do this in the future?
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@m-j-r
true, at some point economy of scale points to centralized public API. imho we should start viewing "loss leaders" in parallel and in separate forms of capital. but reddit was by no means a for-profit company when its userbase decided to invent more subreddits, and it certainly didn't incubate the mobile UX that led...
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