[fabianhjr]

If one doesn't own a platform then one is at risk of being kicked out in the name of owners' (shareholders') profits.

This is a recurring theme and I am puzzled that there isn't a bigger dev audience at internet of ownership ( https://ioo.coop/ ) or for platform cooperativism ( https://platform.coop/ )

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

I'm sure devs would be happy to sign on to these things if any of these platforms had significant pull with users. For some reason the people who are interested in building these types of coop platforms seem unable to acquire the types of mega-userbases that plugin and bot devs are interested in targeting.

[reificator]

My plugin and bot development is targeted first and foremost at my own needs. Anything I can share with others is gravy.

Which means if your platform doesn't let me talk to the users I personally want to talk to/do the things I want to do, I'm not going to write anything for it without compensation.