I appreciate I’m likely preaching to the choir here

Yeah but it amazes me how many people just don’t get it. People on reddit looking for an alternative… “let’s go to lemmy”, “nah there’s lefty weirdos”, “ok let’s go to <closed source reddit clone>”, “ok this is gonna work out great!”

Well yeah but in this case, won’t reddit just replace the mods ?

This will ultimately increase the number of users who can be advertised to.

For every person who is engaged about this there are a dozen that don’t understand what an API is and will happily switch over to another app from the app store if it has cat gifs.

They would have to show their books as part of an IPO anyway, and everyone already knows its not profitable. It’s not like he accidentally dropped a big secret here.

I think it’s an important lesson in impermanence.

The net will always have good bits and bad bits, but they won’t always stay the same.