You have a premise that the web site has to cost a lot of money. I keep wondering if Reddit-like aggregator could be run such that * The founders take minimal

You have a premise that the web site has to cost a lot of money. I keep wondering if Reddit-like aggregator could be run such that * The founders take minimal amount of VC money to get things running * There is no self-hosting of anything unnecessary * Everything is hosted on-premise (not sure if this would cut costs in the long run) * Serve the users the least amount of ads to make it worthwhile So basically run a decent service that you can sustain for decades. You won't become an IPO billionaire, but maybe get a humble couple of millions. Perhaps it can't be done, and enshittification is the only way. In that case, I don't see any other way than decentralisation run by donations to get us something decent.