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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoThis is such a half-assed dog and pony show.
They have millions in investment, why do they need someone else to fund this? Why don’t the bluesky team directly and materially support them?
This is a core aspect of Bluesky’s marketing and they asking other volunteers to help make them rich.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Until there’s overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way. That doesn’t mean it won’t, just that a different capital process is at work. Wikipedia has outlived most of “web2.0” because of its funding model.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Trust me we will be deep into that territory so fast it is going to make your head spin.
Private equity and VC funding can’t directly buy Wikipedia and dissect it because it is an at least somewhat functional non-profit organization. That is the only reason.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What would a comparable example be?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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