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I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.

Boost is the app that took me away from BaconReader… But none of that matters now.

Well Boost did announce they’re making a Lemmy client, so…

You don’t smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.

That’s just called “extreme avarice,” and “sociopathy.”

Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.

He only cares because it’s not him that’s doing the pillaging.

Also… Quora just seems fucking wild

Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.

This is, and will always be, the main push of capitalism. This isn’t some cute new term like “enshittification” or something, this is just good ol fashion rent seeking and it’s capitalism working as intended.

Was bound to happen when average people started creating cults of personality around billionaires.

This is my thought exactly. As it becomes easier and easier to use these sites, with apps and everything, we will start to see more crazy and stupid conservatives.

They’re too stupid to figure it out at the moment. Most of them at least. And the ones who aren’t, are the ones who are aware that they’re ideology is trash, but they are using it for financial and/or tax reasons.

Nah, horseshoe theory is bullshit. Militant far left, and militant far right are shitty for very different reasons.

Tankies make us all look bad

I don’t really understand reddit’s angle here… Why would they provide zero cost API access to an app, as long as the developer of the app isn’t making a profit? Are they trying to act like that was the issue they had with these third party apps? That they e profitable?

How does it make sense for them to allow an app for that reason?

And who are they going to have take over mod responsibilities (for free) in all of these communities at once? This is why mods need to call their bluff and force them to try to replace them.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.

“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.

Yeah, Tunic on Switch is rough…

Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.

There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.

Before they know it, they’ll find themselves in a sea of shit content and ads, and realize what they lost.

I think there is no evidence that corporations are going to do what you all say they’re going to do

My friend, learn some history.

Who would know that? Surely not the average user, since we weren’t all invited to this meeting, and everyone who was would be under NDA…