Yeah, that’s why I don’t like much how they are using this place to repost memes or tweets. It’s not content I really like, a written thought like yours will always be more genuine and personalized.

There is some theory circulating that this is related to LLMs scraping reddit data. They say the absurd API pricing is B2B pricing targeting companies like Microsoft to use reddit as training data (not just threads but voting, voting habits, etc.)

Makes sense why so much stupidity and inability to get to a reasonable agreement with 3rd parties. Basically the logic is that if they left a lower pricing for 3rd parties, the big players would be much less eager to accept paying more.

I was a Facebook user for years. Had my groups, valuable people I met, great knowledge and experiences. Gradually the algorithm screwed the fanpage experience, then they fucked up the groups, content started being more and more monotonous and low-intelligence. Now you open FB and it’s half a 6 people echo chamber and half a TikTok imitation with low quality entertainment and information.

Switched to Reddit, and now seeing the same path to fuck the user experience and get us addicted and watching ads all day.

I doubt this will be ever massive but that does not matter, what matters is the ability to mantain a solid knowledge agreggator and an environment of open communities. I love to be part of Lemmy and want to contribute as much as possible.

Fuck capitalists and their ROI.