First of all, I post this as someone who is only modestly informed about the whole situation. I’m a casual user who moved here from Reddit mostly because of the blackout and I don’t have a super strong opinion about any of it.
I’m curious to learn though! Part of my curiosity is in the title - what’s the single worst thing the API changes have done (or will do)? Is it that they priced out Apollo? Is there another big third party app that’s getting killed?
Most third party apps are shutting down, unfortunately. The official app is pretty bad but what did it for me is how Reddit handled the whole situation. That’s worse than the API change itself. Reddit has in general gotten worse over time, so this is just the last straw.
I wanted to be more active on lemmy for while but when I joined 2 years ago, the community wasn’t very active outside of some Linux bubbles, so I didn’t stay initially. Now it’s a much better situation and I don’t see myself going back.