[gfosco]

Connectivity and freedom don't pay salaries or cloud bills, unfortunately. Any rational actor has to focus on maintaining profitability.

[kalleboo]

But there's also a difference between "paying salaries and cloud bills" and "fulfilling a $10 billion valuation"

[amstan]

It's not that profitability is a focus, it's just that it's a style these days to sacrifice user freedoms/utility for it where it was unthinkable before.

[xigoi]

Reddit managed to run on donations (Reddit Gold) for years. Why can't it do that now?