Reddit is getting some heat for what they told Christian Selig it would cost to keep using their API: $20 million.
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@jacobrealo in the days before he seemed quite confident it wouldn’t be so intensely skewed. The announced pricing is really sad, the internet feels like is changing
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@jacobrealo And rightfully so, if you ask me. But, I suppose this is just the next step towards the self dismantling of big social media, and a move towards small networks and decentralized systems.
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@Streakmachine The final stages of their enshittification process in other words.

/@jacobrealo @shawn
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@joe Indeed. Perhaps we can swing back towards a more open internet in at least this sense. Then we just have all the other problems to deal with…

@shawn @jacobrealo
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