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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s exactly what Twitter did too. Start off all open and friendly, here is our simple API, have fun, and people did. Then one day Twitter decided the API was too open and started to restrict it, limit tokens and users, charge out the ass. (And that was all long before Muskrat took over.)

    In fact that’s true for a lot of tech companies.

    One of the things that gives me hope for Lemmy is the speed at which it got great apps using that open API.