Reddit is pretty much dead to me after they decided to put a paywall on their API and after their CEO's embarrassing AMA. I'll keep using my libreddit instance

Reddit is pretty much dead to me after they decided to put a paywall on their API and after their CEO's embarrassing AMA. I'll keep using my libreddit instance until the API lasts, and then just delete any presence I have over there. "Profitability" is killing the internet. Either you scoop up as much user data as possible, or charge users for basically anything more than the basis (RyanAir model coming to haunt IT?), or investors think that it's just not worthing putting money into you. Investors are a negligible minority of Internet users, most of them don't even know how TCP/IP works, yet they have the biggest say on how the Internet should be designed. And they're killing it. These big pocketed motherfuckers who put their money into things they don't even understand aren't welcome anymore. It's time to develop open forums based on open protocols, so all this shit about profitability, walled gardens and centralization goes out of the window for good by design. We need an ActivityPub for forums too - and, who knows, maybe ActivityPub itself with a few tweaks will suffice?