And yet, with all that supposed experience they still fail to maintain a decent platform.

There's a reason nobody uses their official app.

Your point stands, but just wanted to point out that the lemmy devs have been working full time on this for the last 3 years, funded by https://nlnet.nl/

I think they do understand this, to a point. That's why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.

And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for spez being an open raging asshole.

However, they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great, and that’s what actually matters in the coming IPO. They also understand that these actions will hurt the site and that the fallout will come at a notable delay. However, by the time it’s clear the site has only a few months to live, the previous owners have already taken the money and left. At that point, it’s a problem for the new owners. Let them figure out how to fix a sinking ship.

u/AngryBeaverBeaver : OP, why do you even bother posting here when 90% of replies are bots?

OP : I'm sorry, but as an AI language model...

Until that IPO happens and investors want an audit of bot activity vs daily active users and then it all goes south from there.

Maybe, maybe not. Advertisers are definitely going to want to know how many of their impressions are actual people and how many are bots.

I fear your right, seems the kind of scummy I’ma god-complex type thing spez would do

Maybe that's the plan, charge the bots to talk to each other

Generally speaking, responsible stewardship of a service involves a tail of wind-down and end of life support. It gives time for people to adjust to new services and/or set-ups, troubleshoot the transitions, and provide some lingering support while the service is deprecated.

As another example, Christian was willing to try to find a way to make Reddit's new API pricing work, but would likely need a good amount of time (say, maybe 6-8~ months of notice) to be able to refactor the application to minimize API calls, trial out new subscription tiers, and figure out what to do for the lifetime users. Instead, he got 30~ days of advance notice after repeated promises that the pricing would not be like Twitter (a lie) and/or no major changes to the API in 2023 (also a lie).

At the end of the day, the people leading these efforts want to end on a good note so they can point to their work as an example of their skills for future opportunities. It is not a good look, where in the face of a belligerent collaborator (i.e. Reddit leadership), one responds in a belligerent manner. Even if Reddit leadership is well deserving of scorn, responding in kind does not create a great professional image.

BotDefense (and many other third party tools) for Reddit were built for its community members, not for Reddit the corporation, which is to say the "client" here are Reddit moderators and community members. In that regard, the developers are adopting good practices for their primary clientele.

So if I read it correctly, it was purely because they disagree with Reddit, not because they lost access/usage of any tools. More of “fuck doing all this work for these assholes” thing