No. The API debacle was fundamentally about money, after all. In the very unlikely event someone does something similarly one-sided and stupid with a fediverse offering, people will simply fork it or move to different ActivityPub compliant software. Neither is possible on Reddit, a proprietary, for-profit website.
I stand (partly) corrected, then. Apparently not all of it was (and it stopped being so long before it would’ve been relevant), but still, didn’t even know that.
No. The API debacle was fundamentally about money, after all. In the very unlikely event someone does something similarly one-sided and stupid with a fediverse offering, people will simply fork it or move to different ActivityPub compliant software. Neither is possible on Reddit, a proprietary, for-profit website.
Actually… Reddit was open source until 2017.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
But the rest of your comment still stands.
I stand (partly) corrected, then. Apparently not all of it was (and it stopped being so long before it would’ve been relevant), but still, didn’t even know that.