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Sure, other than being the dominate social media platform for the original few years (2 decades) he is a total failure I guess

• jordanb 3mo ago
  They maintained the 2 decades dominance by either knifing the baby (vine) or buying (Instagram, whatsapp) every upstart. The moment they couldn't do either they got their clock cleaned (tiktok)
  • radicalbyte 3mo ago
    They benefited greatly from the FTC not doing their job. Google too. Overall it has been extremely damaging to the industry but I suspect that it is the main reason for a small part of California (it not even American exceptionalism, it's Silicon Valley exceptionalism) completely dominating tech.
  • mrits 3mo ago
    Wow, that sounds super easy. Why didn't you do it?
    • Planktonne 3mo ago
      It's a weird assumption that the only thing stopping people from the ad business is the effort involved. Lots of people don't want to sell ads, particularly not with a side of societal harm, even if it would be lucrative. There are other things to value.
      • mrits 3mo ago
        I certainly didn't think it was effort