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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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[–] activepeople@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

they're also pretty open about this, it's not some dark secret.

[–] tojikomori@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. The details do seem to surprise people, but I think that's because they're often elided in euphemistic summaries and don't stand out in someone's profile history the way that trolling and right-wing invective often do.

It's not like they're all-caps yelling about gas ovens, they're just politely welcoming people into their instance and occasionally upvoting or suggesting that wellactually everything's fine in XinJiang and it's racist to believe Uyghurs who say otherwise, etc.

[–] Devadander@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

And I’m pretty open about not wanting to support a site ran by people who think like that