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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@beehaw.org

The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.

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[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 3 points 1 year ago

There are maybe 4 or so ‘crawlers’, and the rest buys access to the part of their data they are willing to sell to others.

And then there is Yep. Just Yep.

You fine? Yep. You prefer being alone? Yep.

[-] eddythompson@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

wait, what??? how did my reply end up on this thread? did I screw up? I was replying to https://beehaw.org/post/506525 I think.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago

Confirmed, that's where I saw your comment, that's where I commented on your comment. I don't know either what happened.

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