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I think this the lifecycle of any typical advertisement revenue based social network/community platform. 1. Have an open platform with APIs which can r/w over

I think this the lifecycle of any typical advertisement revenue based social network/community platform. 1. Have an open platform with APIs which can r/w over entire platform. 2. Gain enough market to attract large advertisers. 3. Start restricting the content to please the advertisers. 4. Start restricting the 3rd party apps which offer superior experience and blocks your ads. 5. Start restricting general API itself. Facebook, Twitter has gone through it, I bet Reddit will start restricting it's API next.

ugjka 5y ago
Reddit is dead to me, there is some change of generations there. Content and comments are below basic
- secondaryacct 5y ago
  Maybe the change is not reddit, maybe it's you growing up? For some reason I still waste my time there trying to share opinions as a HK resident: no China is not just "evil", not Hong Kong is not "oppressed", yes the old idiots, communists or not, are all the same conservative cowards as anywhere else, no we dont seem to really want a bloodbath, so far. You can imagine the amount of weird obsessive hatred I get with this opinion, from people who ve never been to China :D
  - ugjka 5y ago
    Can't comment on your opinions, but maybe I'm getting older indeed
  - mmmpop 5y ago
    Could you provide us a lens for understanding how the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China isn't objectively "evil" then? Would love to understand how us Westerners are getting that one wrong.