Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th
by taurath on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:16PM
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There's a step before this. They're losing a lot of money because the choices they made to take investment to earn more money. They could've gone the route of wikipedia. They could've stayed extremely lean. They took $1.3 BILLION in funding, minimum. They have 500-1000 employees.
Its greed that they got here. They made choices, and then as a concequence of those choices they made choices that are significantly reducing the value they provide to their users. Its enshittification, its killing the golden goose, its destroying a public good for the benefit of investors who don't care about anything other than making a return.
Its greed that they got here. They made choices, and then as a concequence of those choices they made choices that are significantly reducing the value they provide to their users. Its enshittification, its killing the golden goose, its destroying a public good for the benefit of investors who don't care about anything other than making a return.