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What a wild end for Apollo. The era of client APIs for ad-supported platforms is over. Developers should invest their time in open platforms where the business model is aligned with users' and developers' interests: Micro.blog (paid blog hosting) or the fediverse (often donation-supported).
@manton Donation-supported isn't more sustainable.
I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure if it's accurate?
Ad-supported networks have to do incredibly shady possibly illegal things in order to have viable business models. Grassroots networks run by volunteers and supported by donations simply don't need to do this.
Commercial networks also have extremely low staff-to-user ratios compared to donation-supported, which is why they use moderation algorithms a lot more. Commercial networks cannot afford enough moderators.
