$5 Billion for a chronically unprofitable, niche social media platform in an already crowded field. Yeah, Ok. You'd get a better return on your investment if you just burned the money for heat.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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"niche" website in a crowded field....that is also the top 9th most visited website in the world, above tik tok.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
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How about $5?
Silver award. Take it or leave it
Did they fucking recover deleted messages?
I can find every post after automatically editing and deleting them afterwards
Meanwhile tech is hemorrhaging.
Good luck Reddit! 😂
They havent been profitable in a decade. What's their plan for monetization?
Valuable training data for AI. Spez does not give a damn about it. He gladly takes money and sell it off to someone like OPEN AI whose models can be trained on its data.
"I trained on millions of users' data and now I ape them. AITA?"