Not that kind of “open”: The anti-Meta fedi pact

Re:Not that kind of “open”: The anti-Meta fedi pact by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:43AM (#36400184)

How will splitting companies solve the issue? The problem is that for lot of big companies ads is the only driver of revenue and that leads to bad decision. Even if you split the ad divison, the revenue will come from the same thing.. making product worse for increasing ad clicks.

Splitting makes sense if there are unrelated companies giving benefit to each other because they are part of same organization like Bell labs. And even in Bell labs splitting failed and they merged again.

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Re:Not that kind of “open”: The anti-Meta fedi pact by dragontamer on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:57AM (#36400608)

But a lot of smaller companies, the forum / discussion site is just there for support.

Factorio, for instance, needs a discussion site where players could swap strategies and discuss the game. Its complex enough that the players have a need to work together to discover how... say... the best layout for trains was or other such systems.

Factorio was funded by two sources: Reddit (/r/Factorio was very big), and the developers, who ran a private phpBB forum for this purpose. Additional hosting existed across the internet to help distribute mods, "Blueprints" and other community-sourced strategies/features.

There's no need to make a giant mega-advertising webpage. The "usefulness" of these systems is far smaller.

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