What was stopping them from bringing the tools first, let mods migrate and be comfortable with them and then apply the new pricing on the API? Greed and ego are having a field day it seems.
This whole API thing seems just so short sighted… there would have been much better ways to implement this, nobody had problem with the monetisation aspect/inclusion of ads to the API…
But it is what it is… and without this fiasco I wouldn’t have switched to lemmy/kbin! :)
What was stopping them from bringing the tools first, let mods migrate and be comfortable with them and then apply the new pricing on the API? Greed and ego are having a field day it seems.
This whole API thing seems just so short sighted… there would have been much better ways to implement this, nobody had problem with the monetisation aspect/inclusion of ads to the API…
But it is what it is… and without this fiasco I wouldn’t have switched to lemmy/kbin! :)
They never had any intentions of building new tools.
What’s stopping them? Money and the prospect of making more