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Re:After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will... by ergocoder on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:25AM (#36560406)
The concept is more foreign than you ever expected.

Here is a person criticizing 37Signal who wants to optimize for profit.

The tweet was just last week ... in the current economic climate.

https://twitter.com/moritzplassnig/status/167278031492050124...

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Re:After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will... by imglorp on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:16AM (#36561220)
And that link is also inaccessible, underscoring some point...

Plan A: continue as now, make a little money and everyone eats, or

Plan B: pretend to your investors you will be super duper profitable, wreck the internet, and then go out of business with your golden parachute.

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Re:After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will... by ergocoder on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:49PM (#36567436)
It is the Elon's rate limit...
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Re:After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will... by Arainach on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:35AM (#36562421)
There is a big difference between making a profit and optimizing for profit.

Plenty of businesses make a profit - even a healthy profit - while respecting their employees and contributing to their community. Ones which optimize for profit inevitably become evil.

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Re:After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will... by ergocoder on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:49PM (#36567432)
The context is 37Signal has moved from cloud to their owned servers.

You can decide whether that is an evil move.

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