#apicalypse — Public Fediverse posts
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Facebook closed its API long ago, pretending it was because of Cambridge Analytica (but the real reason was commecial), shutting down many research projects on social media.
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Just thinking back to 2016 when r/thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit for years and none of the team at reddit did anything.
Now with these API changes and devs/users making posts actively complaining about what a bad choice it is and how folks are planning to leave reddit en-masse, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted (usually up to something like 100k+ upvotes - usually 3k is enough to get a thread to the frontpage).
I look back on that shitshow in 2016 with even more pennies dropping.
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