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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by bee_rider on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:13PM (#34746698)
The enshittification cycle has always been here, but progress continues. It just feels like things are getting worse as the programs we grew up on enter the shit-zone part of their lifecycle.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by xdfgh1112 on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:30PM (#34747492)
Wikipedia seems like a weird exception to this rule.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by zem on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:52PM (#34747745)
wikipedia isn't a "platform" in that sense of the term, they don't make money by being a middleman between producers, consumers and advertisers.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by bee_rider on Saturday February 11, 2023 @03:13PM (#34755854)
They are super successful at gathering donations, right? I think their goal is fundamentally well-scoped to the sort budget they can hope to get just from donations.

I mean most of the value there is in text written by volunteers, which must not be so expensive to host (compared to, say, an image hosting site for example).

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