Been thinking about this and want to know if it bugs anyone else.
It’s crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.
That didn’t really happen this time and I can’t figure out why. With all the propaganda and fake stuff out there right now, wouldn’t being able to see what’s spreading be important to understand? And isn’t them shutting it down a pretty large signal that it is important?
Maybe there’s a boring explanation I’m missing. But the part that gets me is the other possibility, that there’s some kind of suppression force we might not even be aware of.
Is that terrifying to anyone else or am I overthinking it? Just curious what people who were around for it think.
A lot of the people who could develop workarounds moved to Lemmy. We are the open alternative.
came to say this. I came during that upheval over here. Ironically not so much because of the api thing as much as I had found there was an alternative. I think I had seen things about mastadon before but I never liked the twitter thing so it did not appeal. When I found out there was an open source and not centralized control forum experience like this I was jazzed.
What do you mean by work around?