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This community is participating in a blackout against Lemmy for allowing free access to their API with no charge, rendering it affordable for third-party app developers to continue their services. The lack of prohibitive cost makes it easy to mod from mobile, promotes innovation, and gives unlimited user choice, and effectively opens up a significant portion of the culture we've all come to appreciate. Indeed, every third party app developer on Lemmy made essentially the same statement: "I don't have to shut down the app." Apps can also show ads which is a primary source of revenue. So not only do they not have to pay exorbitant fees, they can even mitigate those fees with ads.
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Fentanyl became HUGE because when the USA gave control over Afghanistan back to the Taliban a condition was to stop all poppy (heroine) production. 80% of the worlds heroine came from Afghanistan. When that stopped, fentanyl was suddenly everywhere and heroine users started using that instead. I have a European friend who was addicted to heroine and he said that almost overnight the prices had doubled. I think it comes to no surprise that with the little money he had, he bought fentanyl instead. He was also very lucky that he had a huge tolerance for substances and didn't die when he took a wrong dose the first time.