The last sentence makes the rest of the comment feel like an unfair generalization of Lemmy and Linux users, which in this context likely may make people even more heated, given the subject of the discussion.
While there technically isn’t anything breaking the rules in your comment, please try and keep responses civil, since this was reported to us
AFAIK apps like Infinity are not paying anything because they’re currently considered “accessibility tools”, although I’m pretty sure they are still subject to a rate limit and a restriction on being able to view any posts labeled or mislabeled as NSFW.
As for the ones who aren’t exempt, I guess they’re reasonably comfortable with the position they’re in, personally I can’t say I’d be. One months notice to rugpull an entire API featureset? No thanks. Long prior notice, planned deprecation period are the industry standard, with extensions as necessary. Things work differently in FOSS, but Reddit is not a FOSS project.
I feel like Spez got upset Apollo was featured in the Apple ad and they weren’t.