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Thousands of Reddit communities 'go dark' in protest of new developer fees (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 years ago by GnothiSeauton to c/lemmyworld

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think for philanthropy to even be a possibility your company needs to be profitable first. Reddit has never been profitable.

But I get your sentiment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Social media can't effectively be monetized without sapping it of most of what makes it usable and interesting.

This has been the problem since the earliest days and its why it was always indie operators or ISPs running these as part of a protocol not some giant cloud database with one person holding the key. Whats happened the last 20 years is VC funded madness to replace the commons.