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>>robbie+(OP)
Everyone saying their pricing is absurd had better get ready for the new wave of API pricing.

Like every other industry, there's a growth period where things are new and prices are reasonable, and then there's the "squeeze" where bean counters come in, make charts that are likely bs, and explain how much easier it'd be if we charged 4x as much for half the customer base.

Twitter was one of the first to give access to cheap mass data, and now they're one of the first to charge through the nose for that. The move is going to be that if you're not enterprise level you're not getting this data anymore, and I doubt it stops with reddit.

>>Eji170+HR
Good. It's about time for more people to move on to better platforms. Twitter is a cesspool, and Reddit has some good communities that will be better served from a platform that's not ruled by a greedy corporation that couldn't care less about its users.

>>imiric+Rh1
What are these better platforms? Genuinely curious.

>>tnel77+4j1
Seems like a golden moment to astroturf in a successor with both reddit and twitter sabotaging themselves?

>>e12e+wk1
Why astroturf? I mean, social media networks are naturally cyclical; the only thing they do is connect users, all the content comes from the users themselves, so the only way they can compete is by being free and not having figured out an annoying business model yet. Once they have to start making a profit, they are done for. Reddit and Twitter are about to hit/have hit that point. No astroturf here, plant some all-natural grass seed.

>>bee_ri+bu1
Biasing parent comment with an /s, maybe meant to say “create huge traffic of anime porn and burn down bank as well as hosting accounts of the poor operator”? That kind of happened with Mastodon and is happening on Misskey. :mailus_banknotes_areallscams: