That hasn’t been true for more than a decade. (Why be in a business you can’t make money on?) Amazon have, for a long time, invested more or less all their profits into new business lines on the promise that they could easily “flip a switch” and start making billions in profits. (They started doing that a few years ago after bad financial results.)
okiokbar
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Companies show what they care about by what problems they choose to focus on, or not. If you build a Twitter competitor and you don’t invest in community safety from the start, you’re showing what you value 🤷🏼♂️
I’m confused by your argument. Here you say white people know full well bad words/racist language exist (suggesting the Bluesky team is incompetent/has massive blind spots), but in another comment you say people just want to complain.
Do you think this is a simple mistake most developers wouldn’t make, or is it not a mistake in the first place?
There should be regulation to force carriers to adopt eSIM? Physical SIM cards are an anachronism that should have died a long time ago.
Threads isn’t a Lemmy competitor - it competes with Mastodon
That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.
I think few people would migrate away in that scenario. Some might create additional accounts (none of this is zero-sum). It’s not unlikely that Mastodon itself will become bigger because of it, and it’ll get hard for Meta to unilaterally pull the plug - a bit like email.
If the Threads product was so superior, and Mastodon so unable to respond that millions would leave Mastodon - sure. I doubt it though..
The outcome then would be that Meta’s instance would be defederated/defederate itself - how would that be different from now?
The idea that Amazon subsidises book prices or generally sells everything at a loss is based on a flawed understanding of the early years of Amazon.