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I miss the days when businesses existed not just to support free users but also their revenue model and profits. It's like the 0%-er meta profit model where the actual business is in building and marketing the userbase and the core business is really just a temporary front that is designed to never make a profit, just create fancy MAU charts and eventually bait and switch free users when it is sold to the highest bidder and the free users all eventually lose their service.

One day, revenue models will either be illegal or required. Considering the outflow of users in this exchange, I'm betting on the second.



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