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alloyedtoday at 2:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

iirc, it's a consumer co-op. So think of it as a vote of all users willing to pay for the membership to the service, who (correspondingly) are more likely to be power users/"activist" in the "activist investor" sense.

This can be contrasted with a private company, which will often have a "activist investor", the actual owner!


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iamnotheretoday at 3:07 AM

Given that the actual number of paying users is probably low, it sounds like it would be relatively cheap to disrupt policy for someone with deep pockets.

masafej536today at 3:40 AM

this is a failure mode of consumer co-op that never occured to me. I thought the idea was bullet proof.

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