recovering hermit, queer and anarchist of some variety, trying to be a good person. i WOULD download a car.

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  • I think I’m just not that worried about making it easy for “most people” right now. The nature of open source projects means that enthusiastic users can and do contribute to infrastructure, and as more people come along, more people will start working on making things better. There’s a reason reddit decided to fuck over third party API calls, and its because open source projects became better than their own shit, and they apparently think that they’re losing potential money because of it. Projects like Apollo would not be getting cut off if they weren’t seen as a threat to reddit’s business model. If lemmy survives, the breadth and depth of community driven infrastructure will outpace reddit eventually. If it doesn’t, well… then somebody will try something else. No biggie. Cool shit takes time to build.