[capybara_2020]

As an alternate perspective.

Maybe people are ok with companies making money from their free work as long as the company does not antagonize the people offering free services just to milk every drop of money from other peoples handwork.

It used to be that forum owners had to beg their users for money to keep the servers going. Which is also not a great situation. But now it seems like it swung completely in the other direction, with users having to beg the forum owners to keep/add things they use.

[Shawnj2]

Yeah people are happy to post and use social networks and forum sites (eg Discord, here, etc.) when those sites don’t make intrusive changes a significant amount of users dislike or do shady things like the Meta Cambridge Analytica scandal.