[tomcooks]

Am I the only one being surprised that what I perceived where the last bastions of pop DIY culture were in fact just farming for corporate acquisition?

This is a bummer, time to forego http and switch to nicer realms.

> This will help customers to reduce costs, increase agility and make highly informed decisions.

Thanks for informing me about how to make decisions and somehow "increase agility" whatever the f that is supposed to mean. Piggusting corpowhorespeak.

[snapetom]

I think shopping for an acquisition for many businesses, especially in tech, is to be expected. It's hard for owners to say no to the sort of money being thrown around not only for themselves, but for any employees with equity.

If there's a platform created by someone who's already struck it rich once and truly doing it out of love, then maybe you've found a super rare unicorn.

[tomcooks]

Of course, and it's well within their rights to look for sponsors and acquisitions. It's also very naive of me to think people would "keep it real", as if that ever brought anything of value.

It's just surprising, somehow I thought those sites were grassroot, made for passionate amateurs by passionate amateurs.

If you want to see the platforms you talk about I suggest taking a look at tilde servers, lots of passion and proper punk attitude