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1 year agoAnother telling line was when he said businesses are beholden to a board. The prototypical example, and the one that makes more sense for mods, is a business being beholden to it’s customers. As in, if you do things your customers don’t like, they’ll leave and go somewhere else.
Of course, spez doesn’t believe users have a choice or any real power, otherwise he wouldn’t act this way. To him, they’re just a resource to be exploited for investors.
The technical aspects, like storage and bandwidth aren’t the only issues (though they are pretty major hurdles). The, arguably, bigger problem is the network effect. If you have the best UX possible and no content creators (that people care about), you won’t get users and without users you won’t get content creators that people care about.