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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s repeating the same cycle, for profit social media will inevitably reach the same fate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

how do they make money? there's no ads and it's free

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

even if they suddenly put ads on it (which would be stupid since no ads is one of their main selling points) it'd still be better than twitter/threads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Phase one enshittification. They're burning VC money to acquire users, who they will then betray.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'd rather say that it's "learning from history of similar services". Facebook also seemed nice in the beginning.