[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