Been thinking about this and want to know if it bugs anyone else.

It’s crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.

That didn’t really happen this time and I can’t figure out why. With all the propaganda and fake stuff out there right now, wouldn’t being able to see what’s spreading be important to understand? And isn’t them shutting it down a pretty large signal that it is important?

Maybe there’s a boring explanation I’m missing. But the part that gets me is the other possibility, that there’s some kind of suppression force we might not even be aware of.

Is that terrifying to anyone else or am I overthinking it? Just curious what people who were around for it think.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 hours ago

      Because these spaces now generate so much racism and anti science and anti leftist trash that it leaks into every part of culture and society. I watch kids on their phones all day. They don’t go to lemmy. They go to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit. Everybody here is saying left leaning users all left so what is left? What content are the kids today seeing and learning and building their world views from? I get you don’t personally like it. But are you ready for these kids to be voting and running for government and being your coworkers and employer in the next 10 years?