The blatant astroturfing is what really icked me out. From day one of the API changes, it was clear that Reddit had spun up the spin machine and had begun to misrepresent the issues.
The main one was how they tried to push the "they just want the API for free", "we're entitled to charge for our services" narrative.
Can someone explain how Jerboa up/downvotes aren't karma? I don't quite understand how karma isn't already a thing here.
But that's the fee for interaction in all of its forms.
If you were to meet someone new and refuse to give away any details about yourself, they would consider that incredibly secretive and the interaction will suffer. If you were to apply for a credit card and withhold your name and adress, the interaction will suffer and you will be denied.
It has and will always work this way, both inside and outside of social media.
This question has been asked like half a dozen times in this thread and still nobody has come up with a concrete response.
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