I paused using lemmy.ml because 90% of the time it doesn’t work

At this point in time, reddit cares about numbers, not competency. It doesn’t matter If a sub (or the entire site) degrades over time, as long as IPO numbers are maximized so they can cash in.

I commend the shutdown but if things get out of hand reddit admins will take over the popular subs. They won’t let a prime sub get shut down by mods.

Open sourcing won’t do much because the value of reddit are its users, not the code.

They would have to join the fediverse to rebuild to trust but of course there is 0% chance of that because their focus is $$$.

I agree with you that the feeling of no keymaster if very liberating.

Charging for APIs is not the problem, the problem is the deceitful, smug and bad faith approach to it.

It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.