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Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by marcinzm on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:40AM (#23257675)
Advertising pays significantly better than the other business models and scales significantly better. Reddit's revenue per user is less than 5% that of Twitter and most of that is still from ads.

So no, there's very very few ways to hit the sorts of revenue targets Twitter has without advertising.

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Re:Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenu... by musicale on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:33PM (#23267391)
> So no, there's very very few ways to hit the sorts of revenue targets Twitter has without advertising

That is very different from saying that a Twitter-like service can't be profitable without advertising.

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