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Please, no. Digg (remember them?) said that the worst thing they ever did was go public. For all the money it brought in, every four months you had to turn everything over to an anonymous gang of people who you’d never meet but who would tell you exactly what to do with your company or throw you out

Discord still being used by russians, it needs to be disconnected like starlink, Ukraine soldiers do use telegram, but the smart ones use signal, thinks it's to do with messages are held on secure servers, but telegram easy to see users on it, and search names, bad policy

Reasonable. Their IP is the user data they gathered. Similar model to reddit. "AI" companies need natural data produced by humans to feed into their models and no longer can feed off web which is polluted by content produced by their LLMs. The data gathered (not the platform) is worth something.