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mercacona | 1 year ago

But they don’t get attention-public-funding enough to be profitable because of the garbage. The garbage is burying them in search results but also literally.

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firebirdn99|1 year ago

i don't know if they were ever profitable. But certainly i think there's been a paradigm shift to commercializing everything (mostly through advertising) the last decade or two and if you fall behind, whatever growth you were aiming for goes away and revenues shrink.

And also almost all advertising revenues have probably become centralized with google search, social media by facebook, and youtube, etc. That combined with rising costs, and higher opportunity cost to instead do something else means these sites are biting the dust.

thierrydamiba|1 year ago

You’re just complaining that the average person doesn’t like what you like, which seems silly. I’m sure the average person thinks what you like is garbage. Who gets to be the judge?

mercacona|1 year ago

My only complain is on the low value of the search results the average person gets, which is easy to judge: passive advertising, SEOsites, etc.

I don’t care what they search, read or watch.

93po|1 year ago

literally what?