Re:Mastodon: Servers, Good and Bad
by zimpenfish on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:20AM
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> Twitter was haemorrhaging money
Well, no, if not for the $800M lawsuit settlement (a one-off), they'd have made $580M profit in 2020.
> technically stuck in a rut
Being under an FTC consent decree where every feature has to be thoroughly documented, analysed, and approved re: user privacy before launch tends to slow development down.
Ol' Musky has made the first almost infinitely worse ($1B interest/year) and cannot do anything about the second.
Well, no, if not for the $800M lawsuit settlement (a one-off), they'd have made $580M profit in 2020.
> technically stuck in a rut
Being under an FTC consent decree where every feature has to be thoroughly documented, analysed, and approved re: user privacy before launch tends to slow development down.
Ol' Musky has made the first almost infinitely worse ($1B interest/year) and cannot do anything about the second.