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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by thatguy0900 on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:26PM (#26471788)
Ideally they would make money by making a better product, not neuter their existing good product to force users to use the worse but more lucrative product
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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by jimmyvalmer on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:12PM (#26472080)
There's just one robust metric for "better," and that's market cap, which is generally tied to current and future profits.
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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by thatguy0900 on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:21PM (#26472133)
If you're an investor, sure. If you're a user there is unquestionably situations where a product gets worse as it gets more market cap
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