I'll admit I'm not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I'd imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development.
Hell, they couldn't even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$
I do think bots are a major culprit. If you look closely, they account for a remarkable amount of the "content".
I wish it was just the boomers. We have a whole new generation of greedy corporate bootlicks on their way up.
Yeah, this is what I'm most interested to see. Right now it's a forward thinking, principled thing.
Once Relay, RiF, Apollo, BaconReader, and all the others go defunct, a lot more people are going to take notice. If they use the awful official app, they're going to realize Reddit has changed dramatically and not for the better, and they've just been shielded from the worst if it with their 3rd party apps.
This is a really good point, and one of the reasons I'm happy to make my new online home here.
The type of people who act like this is nothing, or worse, act like there's nothing that can be done and we should just roll over, won't have gone through the trouble to come here. And yeah, I'm with you, they can all hang out and circlejerk the same jokes over and over along with the bots.
Best of both worlds, and we're all happy. A bit of positive selection bias.
I mean yeah, it looks to be mostly that way with Lemmy.World