Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by charcircuit on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:56PM
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The incentives of optimizing for future revenue are different than those when you are optimizing for minimizing expenses. These values are not very comparable.
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Which of those two is the one optimising for future revenue?
Not trying to be a smart arse - it’s just that the obvious pick (Twitter) has been aiming for revenue from the beginning and haven’t really delivered.
Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by charcircuit on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:48PM
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Twitter.
>has been aiming for revenue from the beginning and haven’t really delivered.
In 2021 twitter had 5.08 billion dollars of revenue. Their ad revenue divided by DAU was about $20. No mastodon instance is close to getting $20 per active user per year.
I’ve made the most basic of errors. I was thinking I was discussing profit.
Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:44PM
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I find the comparison very interesting, in the broader debate of "how can not for profit services with no ads compete with giant for profit advertising based serices". I have really appreciated the analysis in this thread.