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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

something that won’t fall into the same pitfal

What exists that cannot be sold to a high enough bidder? Even Lemmy isn’t magically immune. If the admins of .world got handed checks for a couple million dollars in exchange for the rights to operate the servers, what would discourage them from cashing out?

The internet is fundamentally a privatized system that exists to generate profit for investors. There is no true public domain. Its all just turf up for sale, some of which hasn’t gone to a notable bidder yet. If you do manage to improve a patch of digital real estate to the point where someone will pay you enormous sums to divest, you’d be a fool not to take the money.

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