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I think this captures a lot of what I find so frustrating about all the big tech services today. It seems like so many of them could be a similar model to Signal where they have a minimal team and rely on donations or some small revenue stream. Wikipedia is another example of a highly utilized service that uses the non-profit model.

Is there any reason why most social media sites can't be the same way? Network effects account for a lot of it which is why nobody uses Mastodon even though everybody hates Twitter now.

It's just aggravating that you have tens of thousands of engineers working towards things like ads and tracking when those are actively against most of our interests, and the other side of the scale you have fifty people actually working on things useful to users. How do we fix this?