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benoauyesterday at 6:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

I guess the real question is whether a website where you communicate with friends and close ones needs to be a multi-trillion dollar company in the first place... historically most of them have not been worth very much at all.


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pixl97yesterday at 6:16 PM

The question then becomes how can you make a website with all your friend (and by association all their friends) make enough profit to run itself?

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aprilthird2021yesterday at 6:40 PM

It needs enough revenue to fund its operations. And most people won't pay for such a website, so if you want one place where most people you know are, then...

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hatsunearuyesterday at 6:27 PM

I feel like discord is kind of like this used correctly, but with the recent drama and such it feels terrible