• phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve always seen it as “they tried to monetize a platform before they had a platform that anyone wanted to use”

    Basically, the thing was made from the start to have a bunch of ways to make money, but that didn’t actually put a lot of effort into thinking on what would make it fun it attractive to users.

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      1 year ago

      They’re so used to monetizing that they don’t realize they need something to monetize before they can start monetizing.