It's called decentralized
I don't think it's for revenue. If you look at the Apollo analytics post, the revenue they generate per user is orders of magnitude lower than what they are prepared to charge. It would make more sense to lower the price to the level where 3rd party apps can live because it will still be higher than what they can get from the official app.
Yeah that would be a good way to recreate the echo chamber we love in reddit
Much easier to clean your data with them coming from API compared to scraping. And I don't think they'll be able to negotiate a lower fee because what's the point of pricing their API so high then?? It's clearly to protect their data. Third party apps dying out of the high price is just a side effect that they don't care about.
Cutting the entire world out when there are a few bad guys out there is a stretch. For one troll there are ten meaningfully discussions.
Having 80% of the posts on the home page from 196 is definitely problematic. 196 users really should touch grass and post less
Because echo chamber is awesome. When you say something, no one will disagree with you.
Them wanting to be an echo chamber doesn't mean we should do that too
I wait for the day when there is enough contents here for bookcirclejerk to exist
The fuck are you on? If you see contents you don't like, simply downvote or ignore and get on with your life, not isolation themselves, defeating the purpose of a fediverse, just so that they can have a wholesome 100 echo chamber.
Well a bunch of their training data are from Reddit without paying anything so
That's ridiculous. If people are that sensitive and need to feel absolute safe to post some shits on an anonymous platform, then they shouldn't use the Internet at all.
Just don't use their paid sync. Treat it as VsCode but solely for markdown files.