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Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees(mashable.com)

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Nougat@fedia.io
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Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?

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lando55@lemmy.world
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There are dozens of us!

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tb_@lemmy.world
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Dozens!

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WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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At least 4 dozen!

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TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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Twitter did it before Reddit, IIRC. It was part of the conversation around API fees for Reddit.

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emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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It’s a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that’s hemorrhaging users and engagement.

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misk@sopuli.xyz
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You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!

🧠🧠🧠

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SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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It’s weird to you cause you’re not a mega-brain CEO… if revenue drops, you raise the prices, obviously.

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they’re trying to monetize whatever they can

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yildolw@lemmy.world
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Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

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db2@lemmy.world
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And next week he’ll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.

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Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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Xitter has served its purpose. After the election he’ll probably ditch it.

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Tyfud@lemmy.world
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Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.

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db2@lemmy.world
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He also likes it so literal children can publicly adore him. Also grooming.

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?

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Brewchin@lemmy.world
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I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.

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distortwave@lemmy.ml
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Oh no. Elon musk don’t ruin Twitter … Oooohh nooo someone stop him from ruining that awful platform…

Someone please stop him.

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Who uses Twitter?

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CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee
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I used to use it solely for sports news updates. Once Elon bought it, kept constantly getting politics news that I didn’t want. Kept adding blocked terms hoping to not see it anymore. Nope. Kept getting pushed right wing bullshit. Deleted and never looked back. It helps that people have actually moved to Bluesky. The biggest issue I have is with Reddit and Lemmy not having the sports communities here. Game threads for Orioles games had 0 comments. I’m not going to just sit there and post to myself.

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desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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twitter is a reasonable option to go when looking for Medium to high levels of user toxicity.

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