hm, someone told me it was so easy to cut wasteful spending.

…and then hand the IP to another studio.

The appeal in popular social networks isn’t innovation, it’s the sheer quantity of other users. You don’t need resources just to do new things, you need resources to build and maintain the infrastructure to serve all those users. That’s why FOSS social media will always be niche like Lemmy and mastodon.

theoretically, sure it’s possible. but in practice, capitalism will win out in the end. this is pretty much what happened to reddit. first unobtrusive non-targeted ads, then reddit gold… you know the rest.

yet they still keep making them.

eh it’ll be back. they are doing another mass effect after Andromeda.

social media depends on having a critical mass of users, and that’s only going to happen with a free model.

i don’t care about the nub on mine, but i do care a lot about the left/right click buttons that take up so much of the trackpad area. just gimme a bigass trackpad.