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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • I’ll have to disagree. Products being paid wouldn’t have stopped

    • the internet becoming centralized around fewer and fewer services

    • forced those services to have had upheld their quality and promises

    Cable TV started under the pretense of having no ads other than each network’s own, and to have access to pay-per-view events (which is sports and we can stop pretending sports didn’t sell cable).

    And yet Cable, despite exploding more and more on widespread adoption, still became the same if not WORSE than public TV.

    The paid-ternet would be the same or worse than what we have. And I know Facebook’s dream goal is to make a paid-ternet. If I die and become a cyberghost, I’ll haunt the hell out of any server rack where that goal is making progress and make sure it never succeeeds.


  • Of course they’re not profitable.

    Most growing tech companies aren’t, because most geowing tech companies will take their revenue and immediately reinvest it back into more growth, as they know growth attracts further VC investments, which will actually cover paychecks in the meantime. This is exactly how the world of tech works nowadays.

    Being profitable or not is meaningless if you’re talking about a company exploding in revenue.