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'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got off there as soon as I saw them slandering the creator of Apollo for ‘threats’, now I’m hoping he’ll just shift focus and make it into a badass Lemmy app instead.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spez answered a total of 14 softballs, and 7 more questions were answered by other employees with ultimately no satisfactory outcomes or answers. You didn't really miss much unless you like watching people pour gasoline on dumpster fires.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were premade responses too. He accidentally full copy and pasted one.

[–] M_g 5 points 1 year ago

Lmao of course he did, what a clown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it was a fantastic dumpster fire. I can't decide if he fared better than Steven Seagal or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's definitely up there as one of the absolute worst AMAs of all time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

that's a plot twist i'd pay to see