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Because all major actors are laser-focused on extracting more revenue with ads and subscriptions rather than improving connectivity and freedom.

• gfosco 3y ago
  Connectivity and freedom don't pay salaries or cloud bills, unfortunately. Any rational actor has to focus on maintaining profitability.
  • amstan 3y ago
    It's not that profitability is a focus, it's just that it's a style these days to sacrifice user freedoms/utility for it where it was unthinkable before.
  • kalleboo 3y ago
    But there's also a difference between "paying salaries and cloud bills" and "fulfilling a $10 billion valuation"
  • xigoi 3y ago
    Reddit managed to run on donations (Reddit Gold) for years. Why can't it do that now?