Probably not but one can hope… to the Fediverse lemmings!

  • dub@lemmy.world
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    It’s clear that something is going on. At least for Reddit and Twitter, they need to make money. They’ve made that pretty obvious but it is curious why now. Facebook and others didn’t seem to have this issue. YouTube sounds like google just Google

    I’m not sure how Lemmy will last if it grows massively. But I’m here for a good time not a long

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      1 year ago

      The interest rates went up, and it broke Silicon Valley’s infinite money cheat, so they are all under pressure to become profitable.

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        1 year ago

        I was thinking similar. Might be the dot com crash 2.0. No more free money at insanely low interest rates

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      Wikipedia has done well for itself using donation runs and grassroots support, so if there are ways for instances to do similar the decentralized nature of this will work out ok.

      Elsewhere the issue is many of these large services have grown to the size of effectively being a public good, but good luck maintaining a public good in a profit generating way as a private company seeking the next quarter’s growth.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a good point. Wikipedia isn’t a for-profit company so they don’t have to show insane profit every quarter in order to calm shareholders. I donate to Wikipedia all the time cause I appreciate what they provide.

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        1 year ago

        Could be. but i would argue that would be worse than a free-to-view website that just ran ads as you didnt need sign up or anything to view them.