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The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume if Lemmy ever got big enough to be an actual threat, the big guys would do something about it. I’m not sure what though, but something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It will be monetized at some point. It's free data and people are scraping it. Google will inject ads via Chrome until people move to another browser, who knows. Capitalism always finds a way.