OhNoMoreLemmy

@OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the headline is wrong and it’s not actually a community-run database? 

  The point is all of these sites, be it reddit or imbd or steamdb are only valuable because of the user content, and for some reason we’ve decided it’s completely acceptable that the people that administrate the website can claim ownership of the data and sell it off to the highest bider.

  That doesn’t mean running a website isn’t hard work, it is, but that we’re making people rich on the basis of work other people did for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Community built assets sold to venture capital by website admins. 

  It’s a tail as old as the Internet, and still incredibly shitty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way a serial liar and Nazi could ever tell lies about how much money he’s making.

  Twitter was a money pit before the take over and Elon has run it into the ground. It must be bleeding money.