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Surely having the clients fetch the data from Reddit’s servers themselves would be easier?

Easier? Yes. Reasonable? Not at all. Reddit wants to control all the data, the whole API fiasco started because they started to abuse their power, do you think they can trusted of stewards of social media data?

I don’t break the rules against the enemy because then the enemy would be allowed to break the rules against me.

This is a fight, not a game. There are no rules. Do you think they care about rules when they started forcing moderators out of the protesting subs? Or lying about what Christian was asking during pricing negotiations? Or when they get mods working for them to do their bidding?

Let’s not be naive. They will leverage anything they have to get the upper hand. We are not going to win anything by pretending there is a higher moral ground to stand on.

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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

We are not going to win anything by pretending there is a higher moral ground to stand on.

The moral high ground is the ONLY thing we have. Lemmy as a platform exists to be a non-evil counterpart to Reddit. It would have no purpose to exist were it not for our better ethics.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It is the ethos of decentralized platforms (which can not by its very nature be controlled by any single entity) that makes them superior, not the individuals on it.
  
  Also, the only way to claim what I am doing as “evil” is by accepting their premise that they own the data and that mirrors are “stealing” from them.
  
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