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Honestly, I want Reddit to fail altogether and have people flood into Lemmy by hosting their own instances. It's like ripping off the band-aid, it's just better to get on with it.
My account is 17 years old and predates the first digg migration (before the giant digg v4). It’s been a downhill run for a while but sometime after the Boston bombing debacle it’s seemed much more aggressively moderated and curated, much less “free” and less tolerant of opinions or thoughts that fall outside of the “hive mind”.
I use it less and less anyway. I get that the API was abused to violate folks privacy wishes(ie:pushshift ) and feed larger corps coffers with ad data. And I get that a response is to ad some charge. But their general direction has seemed to be circling a toilet so to speak
They axed Pushshifts API access because the dude was unresponsive. Which is par for the course. It was down for days at a time often. At one point he mentioned you could opt out of pushift crawls, but signing up for a google survey with your username. But then never opted anyone out, so everyone got crawled.
Guy is a bit of a scumbag. Im glad his access was cut.