• Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Shorting the hell out of this one.

    My bet is that their valuation is going to be ridiculous and the price will drop like a rock for at least 6 months to a year

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      10 months ago

      The company, which generates its revenue primarily through advertising and also offers premium access for $5.99 per month, has yet to turn a profit

      Ya, this seems like a bad investment. And the need to turn a profit will likely lead to a worse and worse user experience as Reddit tries to monetize them.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Yep.

        Al the “disrupt the system” tech is just something that people use because it operates at a lose. The vast majority of the time the changes to turn a profit kill the platform.

        Twitter has been around forever, and never turned a profit.

        That didn’t stop an egotistical idiot from spending billions in it tho. Because he thought he was smart enough to easily do it.

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        10 months ago

        spez is using Musk’s Twitter business model. it’s sure to work— just not the way he hopes…

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        10 months ago

        If they can’t make a profit now I’m not sure how they expect to get more and more profits every year / quarter for the investors to pocket.

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      10 months ago

      Especially the worse the AI botting problem will become. Let us hope Lemmy will have good tools and a community to mitigate that.