[protocolture]

> The near billion users OpenAI has is actually a real moat and might translate into decent chunk of revenue.

People used to suggest this about MySpace.

[kristianc]

MySpace never had close to a billion users.

[piva00]

300 million users in 2007 is mighty impressive, the internet was not absolutely ubiquitous like now, mobile access to it was in its infancy. Relatively speaking it is as impressive as 1 billion users in 2026.

[carlmr]

But everyone had at least one friend, Tom.