[seaerkin]

Do we think this is related to media platforms seemingly walling themselves off? Requiring accounts to view content, removing API access. It seems if they can silo data off and make it difficult to access at a large scale, then they are the gatekeeper of the data and can control usage and pricing.

[BlueTemplar]

No, this always happens with platforms once they feel they have attracted enough users : for instance it happened with Twitter in 2013, or see also what happened to XMPP after Google and Facebook have adopted it, or Reddit going closed source in 2017...