• Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We’re not arguing against profitability. However, making growth and profit central to social platforms is the culprit.

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      1 year ago

      Tech companies keep getting funding by selling pipe dreams to clueless investors and then strip mining it out of everything people liked from it.

      There needs to be a better, sustainable and scalable growth model for social platforms. The difficulty is that a not a lot of people will pay for it, and to be fair it wouldn’t be good to restrict it to only those that do.