News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by jedberg on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:56PM (#27373925)
This actually just proves OPs point. When CN bought reddit, reddit thrived. They gave us a bunch of money and no constraints.

When reddit recapitalized is when all the monetization stuff really started. Once they brought in outside investors and had people to answer to.

Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by ddingus on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:07PM (#27374040)
Yes. That is what I intended and did not articulate as well as you just did.