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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by CuriousSkeptic on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:26PM (#23318452)
Spotify is reliant on copyright exclusions to keep competing free services at bay. So aren’t really providing any value.

YouTube is still reliant on ads, and ad-funded content creators, and will continue serving you manipulative content wether you pay or not. So can’t really count that as a success either.

The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can bee done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by solveit on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:34PM (#23318513)
> The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can be done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.

Then why hasn't it happened?

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:29AM (#23319644)
Because the ugly side of those businesses remains.
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