As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …
While I can’t say I agree with the political views of the lemmy devs (at least as described in this article, as I have no other reference point), I think that it shows one of the really cool things about the fediverse. So what if those guys over there are weirdos? I can take the ball they gave me and go play somewhere else with other people.
@Takeshidude
Yeah can’t say i am on board with the hardcore tankie stuff but like you said that’s a positive of the fediverse other instances can choose not to play with them. Been on lemmy only for a few days but so far i haven’t seen anything terrible, no more than the shit popping up on reddit now lol.
I mean, Reddit had its share of tankies too. A lot of the Lemmygrad stuff is just copies of the Reddit garbage.
All the really obnoxious Tankie stuff seems to be contained to Lemmygrad, at least. I’m glad they had the foresight to cordon it off from their showcase instance.