By acidyo on Skatehive
Before announcing and going through with the idea, I wanted to check it with the community first. Let's go into the details... The why. X closed itself off from the rest of the world upon Musk's acquisition in a big way by limiting usage of their API's which caused a lot of different apps to stop working. They created a tier list and @poshtoken was surpassing the 2nd tier by a margin of 5-6x in activity, this meant that we could not make due with just the 2nd tier API which would've cost $100/month. The 3rd tier was $42,000/month so obviously that was ludacris to expect to pay those amounts for API access to cover the automation of all things POSH on X. While we've shifted focus onto Reddit lately with @redditposh, it is quite different from X as the sharing there works similar to communities on Hive, with each one having its own rules and Reddit generally being against the big subreddits wanting to take users off-site, thus they've put a lot of money into making Reddit keep their user