'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.
    • Ryumast3r@lemm.ee
      22·
      2 years ago

      One minute our content (through the API) is “very valuable” and “needs to be monetized”. The next we’re just “noise”.

    • Parsley@lemmy.ml
      14·
      2 years ago

      If you can’t be monetized, you’re just noise. They don’t see their community as people, they see them as data to be harvested and eyes to be advertised to.