Comment by theshrike79

"Are becoming", you sweet summer child.

It all started with Facebook closing pretty much everything and making FB Messenger a custom protocol instead of XMPP.

And whatever API access is still available is so shit and badly managed that even a household name billion dollar gaming company couldn't get a fast-lane for approval to use specific API endpoints.

The final straw was Twitter effectively closing up their API "to protect from bots", which in fact did NOT protect anyone from bots. All it did was prevent legitimate entertaining and silly bots from acting on the platform, the actual state-controlled trolls just bought the blue checkmark and continued as-is.