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Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered by HWR_14 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:45PM (#44407080)
In many segments, especially ones served digitally, only one or a few companies will survive. It's very much "grow or die".
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Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered by aeve890 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:51PM (#44407134)
Pardon my ignorance but is that expensive to run a social platform?
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Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered by DeathRay2K on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:58PM (#44407200)
Running a social media platform can be very expensive, and it only gets more expensive every day.

Media takes a lot of storage and bandwidth, and you basically have unbounded costs if you want to meet user expectations for posting media.

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Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered by ambicapter on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:32PM (#44408342)
That's a narrative that makes no sense. If a company is profitable, it doesn't "die". If customers like your product and their friends are on your platform, they have no reason to leave to another.
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